Richard Earnest is a six-time CEO, leadership expert, and author of the new book - Leading with Ethics and Humanity - Do you have the guts? We speak with Richard about his new book, what it was like as a first-time book author, and how the lessons he learned leading in the US Navy and as a CEO and board member shaped his perspective on ethical leadership. Richard is one of my favorite people to talk to and I can't wait to get started.
Sep 20, 2022•42 min•Ep. 47
Austin Trees is the Senior Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and an industry expert on everything office space. On this episode of Capital Geek Austin shares best practice and what to look out for when leasing an office space.
Aug 23, 2022•39 min•Ep. 46
This week's guest was Bo Blackburn and Jeff Daily, co-founders at Sellers Shield. Sellers Shield is revolutionizing the way that seller's disclosures are handled during real estate transactions and helping to radically evolve the way that real estate transactions are handled through their next-generation cloud platform.
Jun 28, 2022•41 min•Ep. 45
That was Jonathan Sass, vice president of product and marketing at Vyopta. Vyopta is helping customers get the most out of technologies like Zoom, Slack, and MS Teams while integrating in-person participation for folks returning to the office. There's never been a better time to explore how platforms like Vyopta's digital collaboration experience management platform can help and I'm anxious to dig in. Welcome to this week's episode of Capital GEEK.
May 12, 2022•44 min•Ep. 44
Joe Schreiber is CEO and founder at AppNovi. Joe and his co-founder Ethan Smart have spent the last 20 years in various cybersecurity roles. They founded AppNovi to solve a gap in the marketplace that they kept running up against while doing incident response, cybersecurity risk analysis, and threat hunting. I love working with founders who are authentically solving problems that they themselves have experienced as practitioners and Joe is doing exactly that at AppNovi. If you work in cybersecur...
Mar 30, 2022•38 min•Ep. 43
As CEO, Denny LeCompte is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and strategic direction at Portnox. Denny brings over 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure and cyber security. Prior to joining Portnox, Denny held executive leadership roles at leading IT management and security firms, including SolarWinds and AlienVault. Denny holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Rice University.
Mar 09, 2022•39 min•Ep. 42
Debbie is an award winning serial technology entrepreneur, CEO, founder, board member, thought leader, author and advisor with a 26 year track record of scaling profitable technology startups. She is currently the founder and chairwoman of Stride Consulting, an agile software development firm. She has been CEO of 3 technology startups, 2 of which she founded. She has scaled 4 high performing technology companies through 2 global downturns, and has landed on Inc 500 twice (with a total of 9 out o...
Feb 22, 2022•34 min•Ep. 41
Andrew has a strong track record of growing and leading early and mid-stage companies into stable organizations. He co-founded CREDANT Technologies in 2001 (data encryption software) and was acquired by Dell in December 2012 and he is a former Chairman of the Graduate School Alumni Board at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business. Andrew is now the CEO of Backbox , a market leader in network automation, security, and management solutions....
Feb 08, 2022•27 min•Ep. 40
Shelley Perry has 25 years of experience as a software executive, including with NTT, HP, and TicketMaster. She also spent four years as a Venture and Operating Partner with Insight Partners, and today works with Nexa Equity Partners and with us at Elsewhere Partners as an Independent Advisor. She recently held the Executive Chair role at Airbrake, an Elsewhere Partners investment, supporting the company's growth leading to its successful acquisition by LogicMonitor and also serves on the board ...
Nov 17, 2021•43 min•Ep. 39
Jack Naglieri is a professional with a passion for information security, cloud infrastructure, and security software. His exposure to information security began as an incident responder for Verisign. After graduation from George Mason University, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and spent two years at Yahoo as an incident responder. He later transitioned into a security engineering role, with the challenge of deploying security monitoring tools at a massive scale. In 2016, he joined Airbnb...
Nov 03, 2021•43 min•Ep. 38
Peter Kirby is a long-time entrepreneur and early pioneer in the blockchain space. He co-founded a Bitcoin hardware company in 2013 and a blockchain technology company in 2014. Peter also executed one of the earliest ICOs in 2015 as CEO of Factom, Inc. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Financial Times, and Forbes. He has been a featured speaker at The World Bank, Money 20/20, The US State Department, and The US Department of Homeland Security. Peter has a BS in Bioc...
Oct 21, 2021•32 min•Ep. 37
Amanda developed her business acumen by repeatedly scaling metrics and creating value for a number of VC-backed startups and established technology companies like Rackspace, Dell, SolarWinds, NetQoS (bought by CA), PeopleAdmin (a Vista Equity Portfolio Co), and Pervasive Software. She has taken 4 companies through exits and is a longtime startup mentor at Capital Factory and Tech Stars Austin. Amanda is an accomplished speaker, board member, and advisor who believes in integrity, the value of co...
Oct 05, 2021•40 min•Ep. 36
Ramon Chen, Chief Product Officer, oversees ActivTrak’s product strategy with a passion for all things data. He’s dedicated to helping organizations and their employees #workwiser through ActivTrak’s workforce analytics platform; ensuring a win-win that improves productivity, while fostering individual well-being. He brings more than 30+ years of leadership experience in product marketing and management to ActivTrak with expertise in data management, analytics, and machine learning. Prior to joi...
Sep 15, 2021•41 min•Ep. 35
That was Kevin Gervais, founder and CTO at Touchless. This week we catch up with Kevin and discuss his passion for enabling user experience for neuro diverse users and how Touchless is changing the game for people with Autism. This is a subject that is very close to my heart and I can't wait to dig in. Welcome to this week's episode of Captial GEEK.
Sep 01, 2021•47 min•Ep. 34
Ron is currently the founder and CEO of xtype, a Value Stream and DevOps platform for ServiceNow. Ron has over 25 years of experience in enterprise tech and a proven track record of taking innovative solutions to market. Ron started at test automation company Mercury interactive, spent ten years in the application performance management space, and has been a driving force in enterprise DevOps technologies since 2010. Ron lives in Tel Aviv with his wife and three daughters. He is also an avid mar...
Jul 27, 2021•42 min•Ep. 33
Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop and best-selling author of Project To Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework. Mik started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he built the first aspect-oriented development environment. He then pioneered the integration of development environments with Agile and DevOps tools while working on his Computer Science PhD at the University of British Columbia. Founding Tasktop out of that rese...
Jul 15, 2021•38 min•Ep. 32
This week on Capital GEEK we host a panel discussion with industry experts Heidi Farris, Dan Schoenbaum, and Wes Bush on the evolution of Product-led growth. This event was recorded in partnership with Elsewhere Partners, and we had a great panel discussion and several awesome questions from the audience. I'm excited to share this with you, so let's get to it. Follow Dan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/schoenbaum/ Follow Heidi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidifarris/ Follow Wes: https://www.linked...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 31
Lisa Xu serves as Chief Executive Officer where she is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic and operational functions for NopSec. Lisa has a passion for connecting business with technology and thrives in transforming disruptive technology into leading solutions. Over the past two decades, Lisa has advised Fortune 500 enterprises on data security, privacy and technology risk management, and led many diverse teams at Ally Financial (GMAC), KPMG, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Lisa holds a...
Jun 15, 2021•33 min•Ep. 30
Ronen Yehoshua, co-founder and CEO of Morphisec, has over 20 year of technology management and venture capital experience. Prior to Morphisec, Ronen was a partner at Cedar Fund, an international venture capital firm with over $325M under management. In this strategic, hands-on role, he led investments and resided on the boards of several companies in seed and growth stage. Before that, Ronen held key leadership positions in managing, investing, and collaborating with start-up companies and cutti...
Jun 03, 2021•38 min•Ep. 29
Kevin Fishner is the Chief of Staff at HashiCorp, where he treats the company as a product. He joined the cloud infrastructure automation company in 2014 as the first business hire, going on to spin up the sales, solutions engineering, account management, and marketing teams. Afterwards, he spent 3 years building the product management and education groups as VP of Product. Kevin graduated from Duke and studied Philosophy. Follow Kevin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinfishner/ Follow Josh: http...
May 11, 2021•48 min•Ep. 28
Chris Anthony is the Founder and CEO of TeamWorx Security, a Maryland-based DEFENSE technology company creating technology to inspire the average IT enterprise. Mr. Anthony has an extensive background in technical and intelligence operations within the Department of Defense, Inter-agencies, Military Special Operations, and the Intelligence Community. He has domain expertise integrating advanced technologies into mission-critical operations and also serves as a technical advisor to NSRI, a Univer...
Mar 30, 2021•46 min•Ep. 27
Heidi is the Head of Operations at Activtrak, a workforce analytics platform that improves team productivity. Heidi has responsibility across several functions, including HR, BI & Analytics, and Go-to-Market Operations. Previously, she served as CMO at Idera, Inc. and later as the company's General Manager for the Database Tools business where she helped acquire and integrate nearly a dozen companies.
Mar 18, 2021•57 min•Ep. 26
Wes Bush is the founder and CEO of ProductLed. He is the bestselling author of Product-Led Growth: How To Build a Product That Sells Itself and is one of the most sought-after product experts in the world. After working for some of the world’s fastest growing companies in the world, today he trains teams around the globe how to turn their product into a powerful growth engine. Follow Wes: https://productled.com/
Mar 02, 2021•41 min•Ep. 25
Mike is an engineer, former private equity fund founder and manager turned serial tech entrepreneur. His life-long passion of using creativity, innovation, and perspective shifts to solve hard problems with elegant solutions is what has defined his career across multiple industries. He believes nothing is out of reach if you're willing to convert thoughts into action and stay laser-focused on the belief that a new reality is constrained only by a bit of time. For more information on today's epis...
Feb 16, 2021•43 min•Ep. 24
Artem Golubev had been in the software business for more than 20 years and a co-founder and CEO of testRigor. testRigor uses AI to solve test maintenance and speed of test creation problems for its customers by allowing them to execute tests from end-user's perspective and autonomously generating tests based on end-user-usage analytics. Follow Artem: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agolubev/
Feb 09, 2021•30 min•Ep. 23
Chris co-founded Itential in 2014 to simplify and accelerate the adoption of network automation and to transform network operations practices. Using a model-based approach, Chris leads the innovation and development of the company’s flagship portfolio of network automation products. For more information on today's episode, visit https://capitalgeek.io/ Connect with us: Josh's LinkedIn Josh's Twitter Josh's Facebook Chris's LinkedIn Itential Twitter Itential LinkedIn Leave Some Feedback: Did you ...
Jan 26, 2021•58 min•Ep. 22
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Graduated from US Naval Academy in 1964 with BS in Engineering. Played football there with Roger Staubach on the 1963 team that played for the national championship (we lost) 10 years in the Navy as a carrier based fighter pilot, 320 combat missions in Vietnam, test pilot at McDonnell Douglas and obtained a Master’s degree in Management while serving in the Navy. 30 years in the computer software business, serving as CEO of six different companies including two...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 21
Nikki Jennings is an energetic, executive-level professional with over 20 years of progressive experience in global sales leadership, corporate and business development and global product management/marketing roles in the technology sector. Her high-level capabilities as a transformational leader are demonstrated in many successes developing and restructuring high-performing sales teams, pioneering revenue-driving product launches and driving complex M&A activity from due diligence to post-a...
Dec 15, 2020•46 min•Ep. 20
Ernest has a degree in electrical engineering from Rice University has been working in technology and technology management for more than 25 years, ranging from enterprises like FedEx, National Instruments, and AT&T cybersecurity to startups like Bazaarvoice, CopperEgg, Precision Autonomy, and Verica. He's been a web developer, operations engineer, product manager, engineering director, and more. He advocates for using Agile, Lean, DevOps, and smart management processes to solve business pro...
Dec 08, 2020•53 min•Ep. 19
Vijay is Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer at Techforce.ai and serves on the company’s executive team. He is responsible for fostering a company-wide customer-centric culture. He is known for steadily introducing eclectic strategies aimed towards creating value across verticals – marketing, sales, customer support, product development, operations. Vijay comes with a vast experience across technology positions in multinational companies including Deloitte and Oracle. He has also served as the...
Nov 24, 2020•32 min•Ep. 18
