In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Sanjay Bhatia. Guest: Sanjay Bhatia, Founder at RUNDAY.AI Sanjay is an AI & Analytics Entrepreneur who has founded and invested in several companies in the space(Runday, Fit:Match, Formidium, CoolLeaf) after founding Izenda (Now Logi Analytics) in his grad school dorm room. He's also a gaming enthusiast and acro yoga instructor and super excited about transforming the world with conversationa...
Apr 05, 2023•27 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Ron Davis. Guest: Ron Davis, Producer, Docutainment, LLC Ron Davis has produced and directed seven films including, Pageant (2008, Sundance Channel),Miss You Can Do It (2013, HBO Original), Harry & Snowman, (2016, Netflix), Life in the Doghouse (2018, Netflix), I am We (2022), ParaGold (2022) and Dawn (2022)
Apr 04, 2023•35 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews William McKnight. Guest: William McKnight, Founder & President at McKnight Consulting Group William McKnight has been recognized as the #1 global influencer in big data, cloud, and data center by Thinkers 360 and the #1 global influencer in master data management by Onalytica in 2022. He is the Founder and President of McKnight Consulting Group, which advises many of the Global 2000 companies...
Mar 29, 2023•28 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Serena Dang. Guest: Serena Dang is the Founder and CEO of an AgeTech startup - Teacup Inc. - a voice-first mobile platform designed to increase social connection and decrease isolation and loneliness among the world’s aging population. Prior to founding Teacup, Serena had three years of experience in VC investing and startup advisory, and six years of experience in investment banking. Graduated f...
Mar 24, 2023•33 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Dave Smith. Guest: Dave Smith, Founder & CEO at The Safe Steps Dave has earned a B.S. degree in Business Management from Cal Poly, Pomona, and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree from the Jack Welch Management Institute at Strayer University. His career has documented excellence in Sales in every organization he has been employed or founded, in the industries of Healthcare and...
Mar 22, 2023•23 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Nicole DeMeo. Guest: Nicole DeMeo, co-founder of Outfront Solutions Nicole DeMeo, co-founder of Outfront Solutions, is an accomplished business launch, growth and turnaround expert, as well as an investment fund advisor. A Silicon Valley veteran, she works closely with global executive teams to develop marketing strategies and guides companies and executives through major lifecycle events. Her pa...
Mar 17, 2023•33 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Terrell Jones. Guest: Terrell Jones, Author of Disruption Off; Founder, Travelocity; Founding Chairman, KAYAK.COM Best known for founding Travelocity.com and serving as founding Chairman of Kayak.com, Terry Jones has become a powerful voice in the world of entrepreneurship through his numerous speaking engagements and the publication of his book, ON Innovation. His career path has established him...
Mar 15, 2023•30 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Niki Bell. Guest: Niki Bell, USA & International Investor Strategist Niki Bell is an Investment Strategist in the private sector, representing investors and their already existing deal flow in the USA and Internationally for over 13 years. She has forged her own path and continues to pioneer her way in investment intuition. In her own words, “I am the INVESTORS’ RIGHT HAND MAN!” She works wit...
Mar 08, 2023•24 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Guillaume Kloof. Guest: Guillaume Kloof, Managing Director at Valley Date Tech Guillaume Kloof is an open-minded tech venture builder growing and investing in startups globally. After having started as developer, worked his way up to CTO and after his exit, started raising capital and assisting other startups while connecting the global startup ecosystem through his online accelerator program, Va...
Mar 08, 2023•26 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews De Kai. Guest: De Kai is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST, and Distinguished Research Scholar at Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute. He is among only 17 scientists worldwide named by the Association for Computational Linguistics as a Founding ACL Fellow, for his pioneering contributions to machine translation and machine learning foundations of systems like ...
Mar 08, 2023•32 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Robert Davis. Guest: Robert Davis, RD Heritage Group Founder of RD Heritage Group, a partnership of family offices and their portfolio investments. The family offices have diverse investments including those in automotive, oil & gas (upstream, midstream and downstream), biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic, hospital roll-up, AI, dairy farm business and real estate. In add...
Mar 08, 2023•28 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Jon Fried. Guest: Jon Fried. As a seasoned entrepreneur and businessman, Jonathan’s many successful ventures have yielded outsized returns due to his vision and incredible skill set in building amazing companies. He currently focuses on community empowerment and social impact infrastructure through innovative investment opportunities. In his prior role as CEO of Wookey purchaser of Sansar, he tur...
Mar 08, 2023•31 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Donna Edmonds. Guest: Donna Edmonds, CEO, BRAINBox Solutions Inc Donna has 35+ years of healthcare experience bridging both the provider and industry segments of HealthCare. She began as critical care nurse, migrating to operations and hospital administration, was a GM of a large Specialty physician group practice and then was recruited to industry, in clinical and business leadership positions. ...
Mar 08, 2023•38 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Tariq Dag Khan. Guest: Tariq Dag Khan is a serial entrepreneur, investor, venture builder and sportsman with 15 years of C-Level experience and 10 years of global private equity experience. Tariq is a visionary who understands what is needed to take company from a vision to an exit.
Mar 08, 2023•26 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Alessandro Albanese. Guest: Alessandro Albanese is the consummate Italian designer who remakes true to his roots and understated aesthetic. https://issuu.com/wynnwood/docs/febmar17/53
Mar 08, 2023•25 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Pushkar Kumar. Guest: Pushkar Kumar, Director Strategy & Partnerships, Monart.art; Partner, Bitdomains.io Pushkar done BTech from IIT Bombay, MBA from Simon Business School, NY, worked with teams from Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley Investment Mgmt, Deutsche Bank, has a rich network of family offices, pe/ vc funds. He advised startup founders, closed few deals, reco...
Mar 08, 2023•29 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Sumit Saraf. Guest: Sumit Saraf, Founding Partner iHQ Ventures Sumit is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and MBA from MIT. He is currently a Partner at IHQ Ventures and TradeBacked Inc, playing roles such as building a nexus of funding channel partners, due diligence of potential investments, negotiating deal closures, analyzing and determining the feasibility of financial models, deter...
Mar 08, 2023•30 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Tilo Bonow. Guest: Tilo Bonow, Founder and CEO at Piabo PR, Investor PIABO is the leading PR agency for the digital industry in Europe located in Berlin. PIABO has a well-documented success story of achieving excellent international media presence for clients in the Internet, mobile, media, hardware and clean tech sectors. Services provided include Public Relations along with strategic Social Med...
Mar 08, 2023•34 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Lubos Brzobohaty. Guest: Lubos Brzobohaty, CEO & Co-founder of SANEZOO. After majoring in computer science and electrical engineering at the Technical University of Brno in the Czech Republic, Lubos went through several software engineering, project management, and product management roles. When working as a CEO for IBA corporation, an SW development, and IT outsourcing house, he built and le...
Jan 27, 2023•30 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Kingsley Kobayashi. Guest: Kingsley Kobayashi, Managing Businesses in Asia and Africa. Kingsley has over 25 years of experience building and managing businesses, with more than $250m in turnover, in Asia and Africa. He has delved deep and engaged in a vast array of fields, ranging from commercial real-estate, renewable and clean energy, trading, hospitality, natural medicine and for the past 6 ye...
Jan 27, 2023•39 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Deepak Jha. Guest: Deepak Jha, Founder, CEO of Remote Symphony After two decades of successful career in Corporate America with the likes of General Electric, Accenture, Oracle, and Tata, my entrepreneurial aspirations have taken over. I have the pleasure of founding and leading RemoteSymphony.com that hopefully will revolutionize how talent is sourced, onboarded and deployed by firms globally to...
Jan 20, 2023•32 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Dr. Anurag Rai. Guest: Dr. Anurag Rai, Director, Kalchuri LNCT Group Incubation Centre Dr. Anurag S D Rai is Director (Innovation, Incubation and Collaboration), Kalchuri LNCT Group Incubation Center, LNCT Group of Institutes & Universities; formerly Executive Officer at AIC-RNTU Foundation Supported by ATAL INNOVATION MISSION, NITI AAYOG; and also Mentor of Change at ATAL INNOVATION MISSION,...
Jan 20, 2023•33 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Beny Rubinstein. Guest: Beny Rubinstein, VP Global Strategy & Innovation & Head of BV Israel Beny is a Senior Strategic Advisor at Evolution.Inc (“We do AI for AI”), leading their global business development and growth strategy. Between 2016 and 2019, Beny led Microsoft’s eCommerce business across 104 markets in Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa, spanning multiple cat...
Jan 16, 2023•30 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Greg Slota. Guest: Greg Slota, Master of Science, CEO and co-founder of MeteoTrack Grzegorz Slota's vision of the inevitable weather around us says that we should start planning any activities by determining its impact. Greg has over 20 years engineering experience in IT. The best technical and economic universities in Poland, combined with experience in multi-million projects. Flexibility, dialo...
Jan 11, 2023•26 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Adrian Niculescu. Guest: Adrian Niculescu, CEO at TOMORROWerse Capital + 20 years business experience in building and developing companies + 10,000 students in my online and offline marketing and business courses since 2013 + 30 tech start-ups mentored since 2014 + 500 gigs spoken at events, consulted, coach, mentored on all continents since 2010 + 250 real estate transactions completed since 200...
Jan 11, 2023•39 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Uria Fiano. Guest: Uria Fiano, Strategic Advisor and Startup Mentor Uria Fiano is a strategy expert and independent board advisor with 15 years of experience driving successful go-to-market, growth and expansion plans of Israeli and European tech startups. Driven by his enthusiasm for innovation and human relations, Uria helps CEOs and leadership teams of early and growth stage startups to antici...
Jan 11, 2023•30 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Stratos Davlos. Guest: Stratos Davlos, AI Expert, Partner and Angel Investor Stratos is an executive, investor, master inventor and expert in data science and software engineering. He has two decades of leadership in artificial intelligence and software engineering from Apple, Jio and IBM. He has 5 exits under his belt and an eye for hero products that make a dent in the universe....
Dec 22, 2022•40 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Emily Hak. Guest: Emily Hak, Managing Director at Private Capital Markets Emily Hak is the Managing Director of the newly created Private Capital Markets team at Insperity, a national provider of HR solutions. In the role, Hak will help optimize Insperity processes and service offerings, lead marketing strategy, and expand upon business development education and partnerships specific to venture c...
Dec 14, 2022•38 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Rafeh Saleh. Guest: Rafeh Saleh, Founding Partner at Cubit Ventures Rafeh launched Cubit Ventures, Founder Institute Egypt, and is an advisor to Toronto based Loyal VC. He previously led one of the largest consulting firms in Egypt. Rafeh is an experienced executive, entrepreneur, and management consultant where he advised numerous companies of all sizes on growth, turnaround, and business restru...
Dec 09, 2022•29 min
In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Marcus Teo. Guest: Marcus Teo, CEO at Image Machine Marcus has experience in AI computer vision, and robotics, and is passionate about creating new technology through engineering. Image Machine uses computer vision technology to recreate people as realistic avatars that reflect them in real time. They started by selling their computer vision technology to other companies in the AI space....
Dec 09, 2022•27 min