Episodes
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It was great, as usual, to chat with Len Green, CPA, MBA, serial entrepreneur and founder/chair of The Green Group. He shared his wisdom and practical insights during a wide ranging AMA session.
* Links to full convo in comments
We discussed a few things including:
1. Len's entrepreneurial journey
2. How entrepreneurs can save money
3. Preferred corporate structures for new and growing businesses
4. Things to consider as we await new Trump administration
Leonard C. Green is a CPA, MBA, and Entrepreneur. He is founder of The Green Group, which is a provider of Tax, Accounting, and Consulting Services.
Len is also involved in 14 businesses in diverse markets. He is one of the original investors of the Nasdaq publicly traded Blue Buffalo pet food company, the fifth largest company in the United States in this category. In addition, his involvement includes a financial services firm, real estate, thoroughbred horses, sports, a couple of publicly traded businesses, and several charities. Len also sits on the Board of Directors for a number of companies and foundations.
In the past 20 years, Len has taught two of the most highly rated entrepreneurial courses at Babson College - one structured similar to Donald Trump's Apprentice TV series, and the other a family business/social entrepreneurship business course. His classes have been featured on CNBC Squawk Box and ABC TV.
His featured articles on family business succession planning, company evaluations, structuring organizations, and maximizing tax deductions have appeared in over 200 newspapers across the country including the The Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Star-Ledger, Boston Globe, Entrepreneur Magazine, INC Magazine, Forbes, and the CEO Forum.
Len's best-selling book âThe Entrepreneurial Playbookâ has been translated in Chinese and Arabic.
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their career journeys
2. Crypto/blockchain history
3. Bitcoin timeline and latest surge
4. How Biden administration affected industry and expectations under Trump
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities relating to crypto
Lou Kerner is a Founding Partner of CryptoOracle, a Crypto VC and Advisory firm focused exclusively on investing and advising entities leveraging, blockchain, cryptocurrency, smart contracts and decentralization.Lou has been a Crypto enthusiast, investor, public speaker and thought leader since 2013. Lou regularly hosts conference calls and Meetups with Crypto industry innovators attended by hundreds of Crypto enthusiasts and investors from around the world. Lou is currently ranked among the most influential Crypto bloggers on Medium, regularly keynotes major Crypto industry events, and often appears on TV or in print talking about Crypto.
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Nisa Amoils is Founder and Managing Partner at A100x Ventures where she invests in early stage Blockchain/AI companies. She has been in VC for over 13 years with multiple unicorns and exits. She previously worked for Dragonfly Capital, Scout Ventures and used to practice securities and corporate law at Anderson Kill. She serves on Boards of public and private companies and Wharton. She has been named top 50 women of web 3, Business Insiderâs Women VCâs to watch, 2021 systematic leader in asset management, top 100 Women in Fintech, and top 50 global Blockchain thinkers. She is a producer and host of Business of BlockchAIn at Nasdaq on Bloomberg, Fox as well as a Forbes writer. She holds a business degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of a best selling book on financial inclusion of women in web 3 https://www.amazon.com/WTF-Happening-Women-Tech-Founders/dp/1544502893
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their career journeys
2. Roboburger and Shark Tank success
3. Unionwear's long term growth
4. How the ecosystem has supported them
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities re manufacturing
Mitch started Unionwear in 1992 with six sewers and a contract to make baseball hats for Ralph Lauren.Now Unionwear is one of the largest private employers of Newark residents, with 175 employees, and contracts to manufacture baseball hats and uniform headwear, medical bags and backpacks, and binders and portfolios for every branch of the armed services, every presidential candidate for decades, domestic manufacturers like Budweiser and Chrysler, and fashion brands such as Vineyard Vines and Supreme.
Unionwear won the SEAMS Domestic Textile Association's inaugural 'Reshoring Award" for bringing textile jobs back to America in 2019 and was named to Fortune Magazineâs Inner City 100 list.
Mitch has received the New Jersey Manufacturing Lifetime Achievement Award from NJBIA and was just named to NJBIZ magazine's 100 most powerful businesspeople in NJ and 10 most powerful people in New Jersey Manufacturing.
Mitch has been named an Industry Scholar at Rutgers Business School and is on the board of Newark Regional Business Partnership, NJ Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and the Newark Workforce Development Board, where he has served as Chairman.
Mitch is a frequent panelist, podcast guest, and guest lecturer on topics including fair labor, lean manufacturing, cloud mobile ERP, cobranding with Made in USA, and has appeared on TV shows ranging from The Profit to The Daily Show.
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Audley is the CEO and Partner, as well as the inventor and the restless mind behind the RoboBurger.
He has been passioned by robotics and automation from a young age, and one of his teenage years robotics prototypes got him a scholarship at Carnegie Mellon.
He attended Carnegie Mellon, receiving a BS in Business. During his senior year (2004) he started the Hkan Hookah Bar and Grill. There he learned what it takes to run a restaurant and the problems associated with a large staff and facility.
Audley went on to start a career in the field of analytics in New York City, amassing 14 years of experience leading analytics teams for companies of all sizes. Over this time he guided many businesses to higher ROI, through cost reduction and optimization.
He focuses on the operations side of the business such as partner management, the operations team, servicing units and inventory control databases and optimizations of our systems.
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their career journeys
2. AI and education
3. AI and talent/workforce
4. Amber's book
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities re AI and education/talent
Alex Swartsel is managing director of Jobs for the Future (JFF) Labs' Insights practice, a growing team that helps decision-makers across the education-to-career landscape understand and prepare for the emerging trends, technologies, and innovations shaping the future of work and learning.JFFLabsâs rapid insights process and transformative trends research agenda focus on core areas impacting the future of work and learningâincluding AI, the metaverse, climate resilience, lifelong learning, aerospace, robotics, and other emerging fields. Alex is also leading the launch of JFFâs new Center for Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work.
Before joining JFFLabs, Alex served as chief of development, finance, and external affairs for Teach for Americaâs Washington, DC, region and as a senior advisor to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, co-designed global strategic planning at the Motion Picture Association, and built and led the communications team for then-first-term U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.
Alex chairs the board of directors of Capital City Symphony and is also a longtime member and former chorus president of the Choral Arts Society of Washington. She holds a BA summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
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Amber Ivey âAIâ is currently a Vice President at a non-profit where she leads a team that helps governments drive impact. In her prior role, as the Senior Director for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University, she led a team that assisted governments in utilizing data and performance management for decision-making.
Furthermore, she played a key role in the design and launch of the Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance. The program aims to train 100 mayors and their senior leaders throughout the Americas on utilizing data to achieve better outcomes.
Formerly, she worked at The Pew Charitable Trustâa nonprofit focused on solving today's challenges by using data-driven, nonpartisan analysis. Here, Amber led the data collection and organization efforts of a first-of-its-kind research study on how all 50 states and the District of Columbia use data to solve complex problems, improve the delivery of government services, manage resources, and evaluate effectiveness.
Before joining Pew, Amber served at Maryland StateStat, a performance-measurement and management office established by former Governor Martin O'Malley (D). Following the change in administration, she helped facilitate the transition by demonstrating the effectiveness of data-driven decision-making through StateStat. Additionally, she played a key role in the establishment of the Governor's Office of Performance Improvement under Governor Larry Hogan (R).
Before joining the State of Maryland, Amber was a logistics manager for a Fortune 50 company where she used data to drive efficiency, productivity, and profits. She switched from private to the public sector to use her skills in service of government efficiency. She has her MPA and J.D. and is excited to serve at the intersection of data, technology, public policy, and law.
She is also the creator of the AI for Kids podcastâwhich breaks down AI for kidsâand the author of "AI... Meets...AI."
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Jordan's career journey
2. Historical progress
3. Latest AI developments
4. How we can leverage AI
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities re AI
Jordan is an AI strategist and founder and host of Everyday AI. Everyday AI is a fast-growing media company helping everyday professionals grow their companies and careers with Generative AI through its daily livestream, podcast and newsletter.Everyday AI is a Top 10 tech podcast on Spotify, and Jordan has taught prompt engineering basics to thousands of people, from entrepreneurs and small business owners to software engineers and Fortune 100 execs. He's been a featured keynote speaker on GenAI, as well as a Coursera instructor for GenAI.
Previously, Jordan was an award-winning multimedia journalist and also worked with companies like Nike and Jordan Brand before starting his own Chicago-based digital strategy company called Accelerant Agency.
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Guy's amazing career journey
2. His perspectives on the latest technology
3. Insights on entrepreneurship
4. Guy's new book, Think Remarkable
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities re startup landscape, tech, etc.
Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and host of the Remarkable People podcast. He was the chief evangelist of Apple, trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation, Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador, and special assistant to the Motorola Division of Google.
Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from UCLA, and an honorary doctorate from Babson College. He lives in Watsonville, California.#podcast #AFewThingsPodcast
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their career journeys
2. Gen AI and education
3. Nihat's iLearn schools
4. Jason's teaching and AI journey
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities re tech and education
Nihat Guvercin is an educational administrator passionate about enhancing public education through technology. He holds a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership, a Master of Education in Administration, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics, providing him with a solid educational foundation and diverse experience.He has been recognized for his accomplishments, notably as the Administrator of the Year by the NJ Charter Schools Association in 2010. Guvercin is well-versed in current educational trends and best practices, having spoken at numerous Ed-Tech and leadership conferences.
Since 2008, Guvercin has been the CEO of iLearn Schools Inc., where he has showcased his visionary leadership. He is dedicated to creating student success opportunities, firmly believing in education's transformative power. His commitment to excellence is evident in all his endeavors.
At iLearn Schools, Guvercin's leadership and vision drive the commitment to innovative education that equips students for success in the digital age.
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Jason Gulya is an English professor and Chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at Berkeley College in New York. He is also an AI consultant and Keynote speaker. A prolific content creator and social media influencer, Jason is vocal about the use of AI in education.
He has earned a significant following through his practical and balanced advice. Jason has worked with thousands of educators, students and administrators to leverage AI. He has been featured in Insider and Forbes for his approach to education and AI.
He holds a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University.
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their career journeys
2. The startup/funding landscape
3. TJ's heathcare fintech venture
4. Garnet's fund/thesis
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities re new ventures and funding
Garnet Heraman is a serial entrepreneur and investor with 25 years experience at the intersection of innovation + technology. Originally from the island nation of Trinidad & Tobago, he was educated at Columbia University (BA), NYU (MBA) and The London School of Economics.
As a dotcom entrepreneur Garnet had 3 exits, 1 of which was to a publicly traded company. As an investor, he is co-founder and managing partner of ApertureÂź Venture Capital, a seed stage fintech fund backed by 7 different Fortune 500 corporations. He is also an LP in other VC funds such as NY InsurTech Fund II and the Berkeley Skydeck Fund, as well as a prolific angel investor.
Garnet is highly sought after as a startup technology expert, appearing in over 30 business publications and at events on 5 continents. He is currently finishing his first book, due out in early 2025.
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TJ Ademiluyi is the CEO & Co-Founder of Alaffia Health, a healthtech company that uses AI to detect overcharges in health insurance claims. After gaining first-hand insight from working at his family's medical billing company, TJ is striving to reduce healthcare costs by tackling a $300 billion medical billing error and waste problem.
TJ has led Alaffia to save its clients nearly $40M to date, and due to his achievements, was named a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree.
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Thier career journeys
2. The startup landscape
3. Matt's investments, entrepreneurial ventures and defense industry
4. Ryan's drone company
5. Discuss trends, challenges and opportunities re new ventures and defense industry
Matt Higgins is a noted serial entrepreneur, growth equity investor as Co-founder and CEO of private investment firm, RSE Ventures, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Burn The Boats.
He is also an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School where he co-teaches the course âMoving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer.â Mr. Higginsâ deep operating experience spans multiple industries over his 25-year career, which he draws upon to help founders navigate complex situations in order to reach their full potential.
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Ryan Gury is the CEO & Co-Founder of PDW, a drone technology company revolutionizing small robotics for the DoD. The drones fit in a servicememberâs backpack and allow them to call in their own air support â precisely the same kind of tactics being employed with great effect in Ukraine. PDW also won a Guinness World Record for their C100 drone.#podcast #AFewThingsPodcast
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On June 27, 2024 we discussed AI in Life Sciences with Jot Chahal, Johnson & Johnson, Patricia Leuchten, Diligent Pharma and V. "Bala" Balasubramanian, PhD, MBA, Orion Innovation
Jot Chahal is Vice President, Global Digital Health at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, where he is accelerating the commercialization of digital health assets across the pharmaceutical business.
Partnering with our regions, technology, and R&D leaders across the globe to build digital health (SaMD, DTx) capabilities and drive business growth across all therapy areas.
He is an entrepreneurial and results-driven health technology executive with twenty years of experience in driving top-line profitable growth through innovation, and data-driven strategies across industries, services, and markets globally.
Patti Leuchten is a pharma industry leader and entrepreneur with a focus on driving improvements in clinical trial execution, at scale, through innovative solutions.
In 1999, she founded The Avoca Group, whose Avoca Quality Consortium paved the way for Diligent Pharma and the Diligent Qualification Platform.
Dr. V. âBalaâ Balasubramanian is currently SVP and Global Head of Industry Solutions Group for Healthcare and Life Sciences at Orion Innovation.
He is responsible for defining the GTM strategy, solution and service offerings for the HLS division, exploring digital transformation initiatives to further the needs of clients, and providing thought leadership to the industry.
It has resulted in Orion being featured in Gartner and Everest Peak Matrix Benchmark Reports in 2022 and 2023. He has recently written about opportunities and challenges with respect to GenAI in Life Sciences.
Prior to Orion, Bala was the Co-Founder and CEO of Cabeus where he was responsible for strategy, leadership and vision for both service offerings and a cloud platform to transform the regulatory value chain for Life Sciences.
#ai #drugdiscovery #clinicaltrials
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their career journeys
2. Mental health crisis
3. Karin's startup and product
4. Harvey's work relating to #AI in #Healthcare
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities re AI and health
Karin Andrea Stephan is a visionary leader and serial entrepreneur with over three decades of business experience. Her passion for empowering people to reach their true potential led her to co-found Earkick, an AI-powered companion that measures, assesses, and improves mental health in real-time.
With degrees in music, management psychology, and digital management, she leverages technology to serve humanity. Having spent most of her life abroad, Karin continuously picks up new languages and thrives on outdoor sports while striving to decode human behavior.
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Dr. Harvey Castro is a multifaceted medical professional, entrepreneur, and AI futurist dedicated to revolutionizing healthcare through innovative technology. With over 20 years of experience as an ER physician, he has been recognized multiple times as ER Doctor of the Year by D Magazine and has consistently been named a "Best Doctor" since 2014. In 2024, he was named one of the top 30 Healthcare IT Influencers Worth a Follow.
Dr. Castro holds an MD from The University of Texas Medical Branch and an MBA from the University of Tennessee. His medical training includes a residency in Emergency Medicine at St. Luke's University Health Network. Beyond his clinical expertise, he has served as an E4 Specialist & Dental Assistant in the United States Army Reserve.
An active thought leader in AI and healthcare, Dr. Castro is the Chief Medical AI Officer at Helpp.ai, focusing on AI-driven fall prevention and workflow automation. He is also the CEO of Medical Intelligence Ops, which integrates Large Language Models into healthcare. Additionally, Dr. Castro holds advisory roles at PONS and Cellotex, and serves as a Strategic Advisor for ChatGPT & Healthcare, the Singapore Ministry of Health, and the Texas Medical Association.
Dr. Castro is a prolific author, with notable works including "Bing Copilot and Other LLM: Revolutionizing Healthcare With AI" and "ChatGPT-5 and Healthcare: Revolutionizing Modern Medicine." He is also finalizing his book, "The Unofficial Guide to AI Mastery: Key Insights from 54 Pioneering TED Talks on Artificial Intelligence," which delves into the transformative impact of AI on healthcare.
Dr. Castro leverages his extensive expertise to educate and inspire, offering courses on AI in healthcare and success reinvention. His digital presence includes a cloned podcast on gptpodcast.com and AI products on convowithgpt.com. Through his work, Dr. Castro aims to bridge the gap between cutting-edge technology and practical healthcare applications, ensuring ethical integration and a focus on the human elements in AI.
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their career journeys
2. The mental health crisis
3. Kara's research and new book, Over the Influence
4. Lauren's practice
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities re social media and mental health
Kara Alaimo, PhD, is a communication professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she created the universityâs academic programs in social media.Her book Over the Influence: Why Social Media is Toxic for Women and Girls â And How We Can Take It Back, which explains how social media is affecting every aspect of the lives of women and girls and what we can do about it, was published in March. She has been writing for CNN Opinion about the social impact of social media and issues affecting women and girls since 2016.
She is a former spokesperson in the Obama administration and communicator at the United Nations and speaks frequently to parents and students in schools about how to handle kidsâ social media use.
For more information, visit www.karaalaimo.com and follow her on Instagram, Facebook and X.
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Lauren Tetenbaum, LCSW, JD, PMH-C is a mother of two, a writer, a former lawyer, and a social worker specializing in supporting millennial moms and young women through life transitions.
Through her counseling practice, Lauren facilitates psychoeducational groups and coaching workshops to empower postpartum and other women in corporate settings, provides therapy to individuals and couples in New York, Connecticut, and Florida, and contributes thought leadership on topics like maternal mental health, gender equity, and working parenthood.
Learn more about Lauren at www.TheCounseLaur.com or connect with her on Instagram (@thecounselaur) or LinkedIn.
#mentalhealth #socialmedia
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We discussed Steve's impressive journalistic background and then the state of the battery and electric vehicle industries, domestically and globally.
Steve LeVine is Editor of The Electric, a publication on the future of batteries, electric vehicles, and the new mobility. The Electric is owned by The Information. Sign up for the pilot: https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/the-electric
Steve is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Foresight, Strategy and Risks Initiative, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Previously, Steve was a foreign correspondent for eighteen years in the former Soviet Union, Pakistan and the Philippines, running a bureau for The Wall Street Journal, and before that writing for The New York Times, the Financial Times and Newsweek.
In recent years, Steve conceived and launched the Future newsletter at Axios, The Mobilist, a blog published at Medium, and before that was on the launch team at Quartz, where he was Washington Correspondent.
Steve has written three books. The most recent is The Powerhouse: America, China and the Great Battery War, which was long-listed for the FT-McKinsey book-of-the-year prize in 2016. In 2007, Random House published The Oil and the Glory, which chronicled the struggle for fortune and power on the Caspian Sea. BusinessWeek magazine selected it as a Top 10 book for the year. In 2008, Random House published Putin's Labyrinth, a profile of Russia through the life and death of a half-dozen Russians.
#EV #electricvehicles #autonomousvehicles #tesla #byd #ford #kia #mercedes #BMW #VW #GM #podcast #afewthingspodcast
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their career journeys
2. The mental health crisis
3. Jen's vision/promly
4. Danielle's research and vision for Thrive Genetics + The Child Code
5. Trends, challenges and opportunities in health
Jennifer Libby has been a psychotherapist for over 20 years treating at-risk adolescents. Jennifer has been sounding the alarm for many years about the rapidly emerging youth mental health crisis exacerbated by less than responsible social media platforms. Frustrated by the slow movement by the social media industry to âdo betterâ for kids, and in response to her own family tragedy, Jennifer founded Promly as a healthier alternative to legacy social media.
Jenniferâs advocacy for better treatment of youth by Big Tech was well received recently in Washington, D.C. where she spoke to a large group of U.S. House Representatives regarding her on-going efforts (informed by client experience and Promlyâs Gen Z advisory board) to have YouTube remove and/or disrupt the algorithm for the âhow to tie a nooseâ and âhow to hang yourselfâ videos that provide step by step video instructions often created by teens themselves. Of note, suicide by hanging in children and teens has increased by exponential numbers in the last 10 years. It is examples like this that drive Promly to re-imagine how social media can âdo betterâ for teens.
Jennifer also speaks publicly on a variety of other mental health concerns impacting teens and has provided consultation with numerous agencies including Center for Humane Tech (producers of the âThe Social Dilemmaâ) on best practices for teens and tech.
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Danielle Dick, Ph.D. is the Greg Brown Endowed Chair of Neuroscience and a Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers University, where she directs the Rutgers Addiction Research Center. She is an internationally recognized and award-winning expert on genetic and environmental influences on addiction, child development, and human behavior.She has led and contributed to more than 20 grants from the National Institutes of Health, with grant funding totaling 55 million dollars. She has 450 peer-reviewed publications and has won numerous national and international awards for her work. She has been named one of the most highly cited researchers in the world across all fields of science.
Her first book "The Child Code: Understanding Your Childâs Unique Nature for Happier, More Effective Parenting" was published by Penguin Random House in September 2021.
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On Jan 30, 2024 we discussed a few things including the latest state of AI in #healthcare and #pharma.
Panelists include:
Kash Patel is the Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Information Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jerseyâs largest and most comprehensive health network. Mr. Patel has more than 25 years of experience in technology leadership, ranging from start-ups to multinational corporations and is a seasoned leader in health care with a strong focus on innovation and building great teams. Before HMH, Kash was the Vice President and Chief Digital Technology Officer at Penn Medicine.
Donna Conroy has 25 yearsâ pharmaceutical industry experience as both a Fortune 500 pharma executive and entrepreneur. Her career has focused on bringing science to patients. First as a microbiologist, then at Schering-Plough, where she led sales and marketing teams and built a $1.2B line of business.
Named one of NJâs Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs, Donna led SciMarâs acceptance into the Merck Digital Science Studio 2023 cohort and 2021 acceptance into Microsoft for Startups. She is a graduate of Microsoftâs prestigious Women in Cloud Accelerator and was named 2021 Top 10 Most Successful Women in Cloud Entrepreneurs.Rohit Vashisht is the co-founder and CEO of WhizAI, a generative AI-powered analytics platform purpose-built for Life Sciences and Healthcare. WhizAI was recently recognized by Inc Media as one of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the US. He has over 20 years of experience in enterprise software sales, product management, development, and strategy. As a tech entrepreneur, Rohit has built successful businesses and was CEO and co-founder of Sverve â an influencer marketplace that was acquired by Bloglovin and rebranded as Activate.
#lifesciences #drugdiscovery #innovation
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On Jan 31, 2024 we discussed a few things including the latest state of #entrepreneurship, #funding and #acceleration.
Speakers included:
Kange Kaneene, is the Vice President of SAP.iO Foundries North and Latin America and Caribbean, SAPâs global network of no-equity ask external startup accelerators. SAP.iO Foundries provide technical and go-to-market support to help startups integrate into SAPâs portfolio and accelerate entry into SAPâs ecosystem to be easily accessed and deployed by SAP customers. In her role she has overseen sourcing for 6 cohorts and has accelerated 38 startups, 66% of which are led by underrepresented individuals. This has resulted in 1 exit and $570M+ raised by the startups collectively.
Gary Stewart is the Managing Director of the Techstars New York City Accelerator powered by J.P. Morgan. Born in Jamaica, he grew up in the Bronx, where he attended the Bronx High School of Science before attending Yale College and Yale Law School. He is a VC-backed, exited serial entrepreneur; an early-stage investor that managed a $1.6 billion start-up portfolio; a professor who has taught entrepreneurship at Yale Law School and IE Business School in Madrid, and been invited to speak at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford and INSEAD; and a former contributor to Forbes Magazine. He is passionate about ensuring that underrepresented and overlooked founders get access to the social and financial capital that they need and deserve.
The co-founder of Cela Innovation, John Lynn is a globally recognized expert and industry leader in startup accelerators. John has spoken on the topic at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as in multiple locations within China, throughout Japan, Haiti, Aruba, and the USA. His work has been published in Forbes, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and at the Nasdaq. Cela builds startup accelerators with the worldâs most influential institutions. Corporations, universities, venture capital groups, and governments all work with John and his team to set up their innovation and entrepreneurship programs. Cela is a venture-backed company, with an active list of corporate, university, and government client partnerships.
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their career journeys
2. Discuss Raja's vision/European market
3. Discuss the 1Huddle story and vision
4. Talk about how LinkedIn has helped your business/career
5. Best practices for leaders leveraging LI and other social media
Sam is the CEO and Founder of 1Huddle, a workforce tech company that upskills, trains, and motivates employees through the use of science-backed, quick-burst mobile games. Sam has managed and coached sales and leadership teams for publicly held, private sector, and franchised companies across the globe for more than 15 years.In 2015, Sam founded 1Huddle on the belief that every worker deserves access to the job training, support, and mentorship needed to win on the job. With a diverse array of clients across the globe, 1Huddle has impacted people in a wide range of sectors. Key clients include the U.S. Air Force, UEFA, vineyard vines, Loews Hotels, ESPN, Audible (an Amazon Company), Novartis, Madison Square Garden, the City of Newark, and more.
With a mobile-first approach to preparing the modern worker, a mobile library of 3,000+ quick-burst employee skill games, an on-demand game marketplace that covers 16 unique workforce skill areas, and the option for
personalized content, 1Huddle is changing the way organizations think about their training â from a one-time boring onboarding experience to a continuous motivational tool. Put simply, 1Huddle is making training more fun, effective, equitable, and accessible for the entire workforce.
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Raja is a Moroccan-born entrepreneur who moved to Switzerland at the age of six. She secured her MBA degree and worked in banking for some time, but her heart was not in it. Raja wanted to feel passionate about the projects she worked on and explore her ideas in entrepreneurship. She began meeting other entrepreneurs in Geneva, but progress was slow due to her limited experience and network.
In 2015, Raja moved to Oslo, Norway, where her Norwegian husband had received a job offer. She decided to start her own company and has since launched multiple ventures. She was the CEO of TheFactory, one of the largest accelerators in Norway and launched thehub.io, the largest job platform for startups in the Nordics.
Raja is also an angel investor in 70+ startups and has advised thousands of founders since 2015. In 2020, she launched The Visionary Company to give founders access to the best practices and tools to accelerate their fundraising and scaling. Raja is a serial-entrepreneur, Head of Fintech at The Factory, Startup Advisor, and Speaker.
#linkedin #branding #entrepreneurship #investing #funding
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Jordan's entrepreneurial journey
2. Everyday AI podcast + Newsletter
3. Opps and Challenges related to #AI
4. Forecast for 2024
5. Guidance for young and old
Jordan is an AI strategist and founder and host of Everyday AI. Everyday AI is a fast-growing media company helping everyday professionals grow their companies and careers with Generative AI through its daily livestream, podcast and newsletter.
Everyday AI is a Top 10 tech podcast on Spotify, and Jordan has taught prompt engineering basics to thousands of people, from entrepreneurs and small business owners to software engineers and Fortune 100 execs. He's been a featured keynote speaker on GenAI, as well as a Coursera instructor for GenAI.
Previously, Jordan was an award-winning multimedia journalist and also worked with companies like Nike and Jordan Brand before starting his own Chicago-based digital strategy company called Accelerant Agency.
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Mark's entrepreneurial journey
2. Creative Good timeline
3. His radio show, Techtonic
4. Forecast for 2024 - state of technology; CES; AI
5. Future trends
Mark is the founder of Creative Good, the New York-based consultancy and creative platform that he founded in 1997. He has spent his career writing, speaking, and advising teams about how to create better products and services. He has created a number of his own projects, too.For over two decades, Mark Hurst and his team at Creative Good have advised a wide range of clients - in media, healthcare, technology, financial services, ecommerce, and more - about how to build better businesses by treating customers well.
Hurst is also the creator of the Good Todo mobile productivity platform, the world's first cross-platform todo list, which he described in his first book, Bit Literacy, which introduced the "empty inbox" method of managing email (now better known as Inbox Zero).
Since fall 2017 Hurst has hosted Techtonic - see techtonic.fm - a weekly FM radio show on WFMU. Here's the Techtonic podcast.
Also in 2017 Hurst ran two Skeptech events questioning today's digital technology, held at WFMU. Hurst is also the founder and host of the Gel conference, which featured the first stage presentations of Khan Academy, Wikipedia, and other world-changing projects.
In 2015 Hurst released the 2nd edition of his book Customers Included, which describes how teams and organizations can create successful products and strategies by including customers.
In 2013 Hurst's column The Google Glass feature no one is talking about went viral, gaining worldwide media attention (and translations into six languages) and starting a conversation about the privacy implications of Google Glass and wearable tech.
Brooklyn 1776, the educational mobile videogame by Hurst and the Creative Good team, won the 2016 Brooklyn Innovation Award for best indie video game.
Mark holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from MIT. He's also an Eagle Scout, a patented game designer (U.S. Patent #5048839), and studies Mandarin Chinese in his spare time. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
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We discussed a few things including:
1. Their impressive career journeys
2. The OpenAI/Sam Altman drama
3. Best practices for leaders of various size and types companies
4. For-profit versus non-profit boards
5. Differences between boards of directors and advisory boards
Benjy is an executive with broad experience incorporating strategy, finance, operations, organization design, executive coaching and leadership development with extensive investment experience in venture capital, private equity, public markets and investment banking. Have served on the boards of numerous public and private companies.
Experiences have included working with both for profit and non profit enterprises and have crossed biotech, higher education, technology, health care services, media, Internet, digital, financial services, telecommunications, alternative energy, agriculture, aerospace, steel, energy, defense, industrial, consumer and China.----
Brandon has a dynamic, 25-year leadership career spearheading several businesses with emphasis on growth, revenue, and sales performance. He has run many high-growth environments, including start-ups, turnarounds, and $1B+ dollar businesses.
As a serial entrepreneur, he has a proven record of founding new businesses and advancing them through growth and acquisition, merger, or roll-up including ScripPoint, Veridian, and AviaraMD. He is the driving force for Xevantâs vision, new market strategy, revenue growth, technology development, and partner alliances.
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