Experienced Voices's guest Steve DeMatteo is a Wealth Advisor, Certified Exit Planning Advisor®, and Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisor . In this HOW-TO segment Steven breaks down what owners need to know before they sell. With an MBA in finance and deep experience guiding business owners and executives through growth, sale, and IPOs, Steve answers the question he hears most often: Is now the right time to sell and how should I prepare? From Mom & Pop shops to built-to-sell ventures and lon...
Jul 25, 2025•26 min
David Duguan is a Ghanaian-born founder and CEO of Voxify whose customer service approach to innovation is culturally grounded in something timeless: hospitality. As David shares that same belief in the power of relationships inspired him to tackle a critical pain point for small businesses delays in responding to customer calls and unclear communication. Blending this passion for service with his expertise as a seasoned CTO, David launched Voxify in 2022. The company’s flagship product, Aurora ...
Jul 15, 2025•31 min
Marcus Weller is the visionary founder behind DeepInvent —an AI-powered platform that’s revolutionizing how intellectual property is created, scaled, and commercialized. By slashing the time and cost of invention, DeepInvent is accelerating innovation across industries and delivering transformative value to the global economy. With a background in cognitive science and data science, Marcus has driven innovation across sectors including AI, semiconductors, consumer electronics, transportation, an...
May 20, 2025•36 min
Want to boost your company's sales? Consumer financing could be the key. In this episode of Experienced Voices , our “How To” segment features Eric Daugherty of Monterey Financial Services, who breaks down the fundamentals of consumer financing for small business owners. From understanding how payment plans influence customer decisions to setting up programs that drive growth, Eric shares practical insights on how businesses can close more sales by making purchases more accessible through flexib...
Apr 21, 2025•22 min
George Gebhart, CEO and founder of Voltu Motor, is a trailblazer in the electric vehicle (EV) industry, leveraging nearly two decades of expertise in engineering, innovation, and leadership to redefine sustainable transportation. A bio-engineer by training, George began his career conducting research in robotics and brain-computer interfaces (BCI) which led to his passion for electrification and technology-driven solutions. With over 15 years of experience in electric drives and EVs, George fou...
Apr 07, 2025•30 min
Entrepreneur twin brothers Nikita and Iliya Bridan forged their automotive careers based on their youthful passion for cars which began in Ukraine. Nikita shares how the brothers have lived their ultimate dream, founding an automotive startup that will introduce in 2026 its HF-11 limited production car priced at over $1 million. The HF-11 is being honed to be the ultimate street-legal vehicle. Only 25 limited edition cars will be available worldwide. Hear how Nikita and his twin brother Iliya ex...
Mar 07, 2025•32 min
Innovative technologies present great opportunities. Michael Brown, CEO of Skyline Robotics, shares how AI automation technology was developed to tackle skyscraper window cleaning. Our discussion weaves through the complexity of the technology, the market analysis that identified potential clients’ pain points, the importance of understanding the industry’s existing labor structure, and more. As a seasoned growth strategist and having led two previous companies with revenue over $400M, sold to p...
Feb 26, 2025•47 min
Automotive and aerospace designer Tim Huntzinger turned entrepreneur takes you on his journey of co-founding an EV startup called XOTO . The company recently introduced a 3-wheel on-road electric “scooter” built to have greater stability to avoid skids and front wheel drive for enhanced control and maneuverability. Hear how he gathered his team, went from concept to prototype to production---protected his IP, and learned the ropes to engage with investors. Tim offers a designer’s approach to nav...
Feb 06, 2025•30 min
When an entrepreneur takes the road less traveled, it is literally true for Colin Godby, co-founder of Dust Moto, an innovative startup launching a high-performance electric dirt bike. Colin’s entrepreneur journey began as a young power sport enthusiast which led him to be an off-road co-driver in international competitive events including the Baja1000 and the TransSyberian Rally. Colin shares how he used his mechanical engineering background to transfer his professional experience and passion f...
Dec 31, 2024•35 min
Josh Brown is an entrepreneur, inventor, founder, and CEO of Dropshot, a smart scoring platform designed to enhance Pickleball scorekeeping– the fastest-growing sport in America. Josh applied his 14 years of software engineering experience to address a pain point of passionate pickleball players like himself---how to keep score that easily eliminates on-court confusion and scoring squabbles. In our discussion, Josh shares how he moved from product idea to market testing to Kickstarter success th...
Nov 26, 2024•35 min
Kasey Edwards, CEO and Co-Founder of Helpr, a global technology company transforming corporate caregiving benefits, shares how their company scaled its services using digital technology to achieve great success. Helpr now serves Fortune 500 companies such as Clorox and Snap through its enterprise platform and is in 45 countries. Hear how Kasey and her partner saw the opportunity offered by digital technology to grow their model and the steps they took to become a global technology company....
Nov 08, 2024•37 min
Broc TenHouten, Co-founder and CEO of Intrinsic Power, Inc., is a leading authority on the challenges of distributed energy and a technical leader and manager of electric vehicle technology commercialization. Hear how his startup identified and solved major pain points impacting consumer use of EVs, while addressing capacity challenges facing our country’s electrical grid. Broc offers great insight about the future of electric vehicles and his approach to launching a tech startup.
Oct 09, 2024•31 min
Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic exemplify national challenges requiring a new approach to achieve the most effective technological solutions. NobleReach Foundation’s CEO Arun Gupta is taking on those challenges, heading a nonprofit startup with half a billion dollars in endowment. Founded as a spinoff of LMI, NobleReach offers a new and ambitious model to drive American innovation through the collaboration of academia, and the private and public sectors. Arun is a highly successful vent...
Sep 13, 2024•30 min
Serial entrepreneur Byron Bennett began his entrepreneurial journey in high school, never expecting that one day he would lead a venture called Zergratran to build in Columbia an alternative to the Panama Canal. He shares the challenges he is facing which include raising funds for a venture of significant scale. His stories of earlier ventures illuminate the unique path of an entrepreneur while offering insight helpful to aspiring and fellow entrepreneurs....
Aug 22, 2024•38 min
Vitaly Golomb is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor who most notably co-founded HP’s corporate venture arm. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sofielabs, the next-gen CRM that uses AI to automate the sales process. Hear how AI was applied to the costly weak link of sales and how their startup strategically emerged from stealth to take on Hubspot and Salesforce which dominate the CRM market.
Jul 22, 2024•39 min
Trevor Laudate heads the award-winning startup Ecodrive, a B2B climate tech platform connecting companies to measurable sustainability projects such as tree planting and harvesting plastic from the ocean. Customers find these environmental and social activities appealing which companies see as strengthening loyalty and yielding other desired customer outcomes. Trevor shares how they developed their model, formed their leadership team, and gained the attention of investors, winning a $300K invest...
Jul 03, 2024•28 min
CEO Stacey Yudin has experienced the full arc of digital technology, leading NEP Services' Union and Non-profit clients from legacy processes and structure to specialized digital technology platforms. Stacey shares how NEP learned about their customers' pain points and established collaborative working relationships---that is ongoing with new technology such as AI. Stacey also delves into the excitement of building an innovative company as part of Industrial 4.0 and her commitment to fostering a...
Jun 16, 2024•26 min
Patricia Lizarraga is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hypatia Capital Management. Leveraging her 30+ years of experience on Wall Street, she and her co-founder launched in 2023 an ETF comprised solely of female-led publicly traded companies, WCEO. Hear how she navigated the launch of this unique financial model that highlights the performance of women executives and increases their prominence within the institutional investor community.
Jun 07, 2024•29 min
Daniel Daoura, founder and CTO of Pebblebee , is a serial entrepreneur and visionary leader in the trackables industry. Daniel began his career at Boeing, where he spent over 10 years in lead engineering roles developing global software and hardware systems for military asset-tracking communication systems. Leveraging this experience, Daniel ventured into the finder space, creating Pebblebee to help people track what matters most to them. To date, Daniel has more than 30 patents in the trackable...
May 15, 2024•39 min
First-time entrepreneurs often have great business ideas that provoke their passion to start a business. Our guests, Stacy Pena and Brian Engleman, are Fund Managers for the San Diego Angel Conference and they will share their experience as to how angel investors view founding entrepreneurs and the business ideas they pitch for funding. Don't miss this chance to gain insight into how to best position your startup to gain the support of investors.
Apr 01, 2024•32 min
Join author Mark Atkeson on his 30-plus year journey of living and working in China, an eyewitness to China's great transformation into a superpower. As both an entrepreneur and investor, Mark shares his firsthand experiences in a country that lifted 800 million people out of poverty over that period, spurred in large part by innovating Chinese entrepreneurs. In his book "Risky Business in Rising China" Mark offers why the U.S. will remain competitive with China, identifying both the country's s...
Feb 16, 2024•47 min
Not many college students can claim that their startup won $100,000 at a pitch competition held at the San Diego Angel Conference and then also gained seed funding. Student athlete Dominyck Bullard, now student entrepreneur, accomplished both soon after launching his digital media startup Athletiverse. His company manages the digital assets of colleges, universities, and collectives, supporting student-athletes and athletic departments. Dominyck shares how he navigated from the initial business ...
Feb 04, 2024•36 min
Hear Ardy Arianpour, CEO & Co-Founder of SEQSTER, a healthcare technology startup. Ardy shares his journey to solve a giant pain point in the healthcare industry, achieving funding and his one-on-one meeting with Bill Gates to discuss his disruptive model. SEQSTER is on the frontline of healthcare innovation, breaking down health data silos, using an enterprise operating system which aggregates disparate health data from a range of sources to provide a single, 360-degree view of a patient in...
Dec 27, 2023•47 min
Sri Solur, CEO of Kenmore Brands at Transformco, takes listeners through his journey of transforming the Kenmore brand in today’s digital world, leaving behind its one-hundred-year history as a top Sears appliance brand. Hear how through his leadership he changed the company’s "retail-captive" culture to embrace innovation, while also applying his 25+ years of experience as a Chief Product Officer at top product-based high-tech companies such as Hewlett Packard and Berkshire Grey.
Dec 15, 2023•44 min
Finding investor funding for a startup is an enormous challenge, William Santana Li, an intrapreneur at Ford Motor and its youngest senior executive at the age of 28 provides frank insight about startup funding—having raised over $120 million for his robots venture Knightscope. He shares the unconventional and visionary mindset that enabled him to move his startup forward despite great obstacles.
Nov 30, 2023•37 min
Funding a life science or medtech startup is uniquely challenging due to the extended time required for product development, and if applicable, product approval. Patrik Schmidle, Founder and CEO of CARI Health shares how he navigated funding for his medtech startup that brought in millions of dollars in funding from a range of funding sources.
Nov 15, 2023•34 min
Susan Newman, SVP of Conferences at the National Retail Federation, and Rob Grimes, Founder and CEO of the International Food & Beverage Technology Association discuss the latest innovations impacting the retail industry and how they will be showcased at the upcoming Retail Big Show in January. They share the excitement of the Food Service Innovation Zone, a dedicated area for 50 exhibitors, that will provide attendees with immersive experiences of the coolest technologies now being introduc...
Nov 09, 2023•28 min
Serial entrepreneur Steve Visconti is co-founder and CEO of Xiid, a cyber security startup providing a proprietary architecture to protect enterprise networks and assets. Steve discusses cyber security in terms of both large companies and startups, sharing insight about cyber threats dominating our news. He also gives his view as to how a tech startup can be scaled, the role of funding, and the mindset that it takes to make it all happen.
Sep 01, 2023•30 min
Product brands surround our everyday lives, but few truly understand what is required to create a brand that is preeminent and enduring. Udaiyan Jatar (UJ) held prominent positions in both P&G and Coca Cola. In the latter he was one of the youngest Global Vice-Presidents where he led the strategy, innovation, and marketing for Global R&D. Now UJ is the co-founder and president of Tecton , a multi-functional health beverage that provides nature’s optimal fuel — exogenous ketones — to prom...
Jul 20, 2023•40 min
Dr. Peter Bonuitti is a renowned orthopedic surgeon who pioneered Minimally Invasive Surgery and has over 500 patents and applications. In a discussion of his two most recently launched products, the world’s smartest mobile UV light sanitizer and a medical device to counter severe headaches, Dr. Bonutti shares insight about the challenges and the rewards of medical device innovation.
Jul 04, 2023•44 min
