This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to empowers internet users and content creators with the tools to build a safer and more trustworthy internet. My guest is Sebastiaan van der Lans, Founder and CEO of WordProof and Chairman of Trusted Web Foundation Sebastiaan van der Lans has a big heart for open source. In 2006 he co-founded Amsterdam’s first WordPress agency ‘Van Ons’, which is a leading digital agency now, serving over 100M page views a year. Sebastiaan ...
Jan 25, 2021•49 min•Season 4Ep. 150
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that enables us to rediscover the places and the people that make the area we live in or visit unique. My guest is Tom Charman, Co-founder and CEO of Nava For the last decade, he founded, been involved in, and scaled high-growth consumer-facing products that aim to solve questions relating to understanding and predicting human behavior through data. He’s a fan of lean startup methodology and spend most of his day building products. Tom gave a ...
Jan 18, 2021•37 min•Season 4Ep. 149
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to avoid people that get paralyzed from having to start their lives over. My guest is Mark Daniels, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Mark Daniel was born and raised in Pensacola. He injured his spine almost 13 years ago and have been using a wheelchair since. In 2010, Mark was asked to assist IHMC with evaluating their first powered exoskeleton, and he kept this involvement since. He has now joined IHMC as ...
Jan 11, 2021•38 min•Season 4Ep. 148
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation in the sales & marketing space that has the power to increase sales productivity by over 80%, and my guest is Ilan Kasan, Co-founder and CEO of Exceed.ai. Ilan is an accomplished product leader with proven successes in driving product, user experience, strategy and execution and building products users and enterprises love such as Webex. He has deep expertise in mobile, web, & application software & SaaS products, and built an 18 year career i...
Jan 04, 2021•40 min•Season 4Ep. 147
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power transform education by taking out bias. My guest is Claudia Rademaker, Co-founder Dugga Claudia has worked internationally with start-ups, scale-ups and international business development in various industries. She’s worked as Assistant Professor at Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University. She did her doctoral thesis within consumer media behavior and communication effectiveness. Aft...
Dec 28, 2020•39 min•Season 3Ep. 146
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to enable wholesale and manufacturing organizations to a build the same kind of relationships online as they’ve always done offline. My guest is Michiel Schipperus, CEO Sana Commerce Michiel has been working in e-commerce since 1999 when he joined ISM eGroup. In the years following he consulted with many distributors and manufacturers on how to successfully set up an online sales channel. These lessons learned from more than...
Dec 21, 2020•42 min•Season 3Ep. 145
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to give every one of us the luxury of financial freedom. My guest is Sam Abrika, Co-founder and CEO of Cash Coach. He’s an engineer, contrarian, ex-banker, and now gamifying personal finance. After he achieved his Master of Science at the Paris Sud University and MBA, he started his career as a Risk & Analytics consultant at IBM. Sam then moved to PWC, followed by UBS where he became Head of EMEA Liquidity and Funding Risk. ...
Dec 14, 2020•43 min•Season 3Ep. 144
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to make artificial intelligence accessible to any business. My guest is Dr. Tom Heseltine, CEO of Aurora AI Tom has been with Aurora for over 15 years, becoming CEO in 2016 and guiding Aurora’s transition from a face-rec centric company to a successful AI specialist. He has a deeply technical background, he mentors and tutors Aurora’s Core Technology team of PhDs in solving the most difficult challenges He has a PhD in Biome...
Dec 07, 2020•48 min•Season 3Ep. 143
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to protect each of us from wasting our life by being trapped in the wrong job within the wrong company. My guest is Nina Alag Suri, founder and CEO of X0pa. Nina is a geek at heart and an entrepreneur by choice. She grew up in India, close to Mumbai, the financial capital. She worked for large companies such as ICL and Steria but was always determined to be an entrepreneur. In 1997 she started her first company in India - in...
Nov 30, 2020•40 min•Season 3Ep. 142
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help let us live the lives we want, without killing our planet. My guest is Terry Swack, CEO of Sustainable Minds. Terry is an Internet and environmental entrepreneur, pioneer in customer experience strategy and thought leader in the product sustainability software industry. Her career has focused on making complex ideas and technologies useful, usable and desirable. She started her first company, TSDesign, in 1994: an In...
Nov 23, 2020•41 min•Season 3Ep. 141
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to turn "dead air" into actionable intelligence, helping Retailers, Healthcare, and Hospitality facilities improve on-site experiences and the health of their businesses. My guest is Van West, Founder and CEO of Vocalytics. Van is an accomplished strategic business development and marketing executive with 15 years’ experience leading teams in startup to Fortune 500 environments. He has a product-minded entrepreneurial approa...
Nov 16, 2020•50 min•Season 3Ep. 140
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that gives SMBs a position of advantage by leveraging technology typically only available to the Enterprise. My guest is Matthew Schmidt, Founder and CEO of Peoplelogic.ai Matthew is and experienced entrepreneur and operator with a history of building and launching products and growing businesses. Early in his career he led DZone’s media business unit, responsible for DZone.com, a popular website and publisher for the global software developer...
Nov 09, 2020•42 min•Season 3Ep. 139
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to drive growth without having to rely on expensive ad campaigns. My guest is Adam Benzecrit, Co-founder at inflo.Ai. Adam has worked in a number of startups and high growth companies for nearly a decade. In 2013 he co-founded inflo.Ai, a London-based technology company that’s on a mission to help overstretched in-house marketing teams, business owners and SMEs to find their voice and grow online. When they saw thousands of ...
Nov 02, 2020•44 min•Season 3Ep. 138
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help digital marketers prove and improve the impact they can make in content marketing and accelerate revenue on the back of it. My guest is Avishai Sharon, Co-Founder and CEO of Trendemon He has over 15 years of experience in product design and management, UI/UX, web and mobile applications, entrepreneurship and startups. In 2005 he founded a digital marketing agency that helped B2B companies build and execute digital ma...
Oct 26, 2020•40 min•Season 3Ep. 137
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to give everyone of us a better understand of what our customers really want. My guest is Frank Schneider, CEO at Speakeasy AI. Frank consulted and led teams providing various SaaS and AI solutions for contact centers and B2B. He’s a former officer and VP of Sales, Marketing and Customer Success at Creative Virtual USA. During his tenure, Creative Virtual USA grew revenue over 300% and became the leader in Fortune 500 enterp...
Oct 19, 2020•52 min•Season 3Ep. 136
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to empower organizations to deliver remarkable impact by creating game-changing teams and cultures. My guest is Nathan Ott, Co-founder and Chief Polisher at The GC Index Nathan has over 20 years of experience working with business leaders to get the best from their talent. He is the co-author of two studies: The DNA Of A Game Changer and The DNA Of A Game-Changing Team and published ‘Coaching Me, Coaching You’. Today he is t...
Oct 12, 2020•51 min•Season 3Ep. 135
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has power to make field engineers far more productive, and give the companies they work for new ways to retain and grow their competitive edge. My guest is Sam Waicberg, Co-founder and CEO CareAr. Sam Waicberg is an entrepreneurial business leader passionate about building brands that scale. His expertise: driving and inspiring high performing teams, game changing solutions, positioning strategies, innovative partnerships, ecosystems, and...
Oct 05, 2020•42 min•Season 3Ep. 134
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation to create expert networks which promote thought leadership, increase revenue, and build engagement and trust. My guest is Charles Thiede, Co-founder and CEO Zapnito Charles who was born in the USA, studied at the San Francisco State University and achieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in Design and Industry. His previous roles have included the Interim Chief Product Officer and Digital Systems Director at Nature Publishing Group, Chief Technology...
Sep 29, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 133
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to transform our society from being very transactional into very empathetic. My guest is Rana Gujral, CEO Behavioral Signals Rana Gujral is an entrepreneur, speaker, and investor. He founded TiZE, a cloud software for specialty chemicals in 2014. He was recruited to be a part of the core turnaround team for Cricut Inc. where he built a first of its kind product for the DIY community and helped turn bankruptcy to profitabilit...
Sep 21, 2020•40 min•Season 3Ep. 132
This podcast interview focuses on technology and process that brings people together to deliver transformative impact. My guest is Greg Silverman, CEO of Concentric Market Since 2010, he has been the CEO of Concentric, a enterprise decision support platform that improves your strategic planning process and your forecasting capabilities. Previously, he was Global Managing Director, Analytics and Valuation, for Interbrand, where he designed the current version of their Brand Valuation methodology ...
Sep 14, 2020•51 min•Season 3Ep. 131
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to take our ability to effectively communicate to the next level. My guest is Scott Sandland, Co-founder and CEO of Cyrano AI Scott is among the most well-known hypnotherapists on earth and an accomplished innovator and entrepreneur. He has been actively involved in the development and customization of multiple software platforms focused on continued education and professional networking for over a decade. Scott has 20 years...
Sep 07, 2020•52 min•Season 3Ep. 130
This podcast interview focuses on what it takes to create innovation that drives positive change. My guest is Neil Sahota, IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) AI subject matter expert, and Professor at UC Irvine. With 20+ years of business experience, Neil works to inspire clients and business partners to foster innovation and develop next generation products/solutions powered by AI. Neil's work experience spans multiple industries including legal services, healthcare, life sciences, retail...
Aug 31, 2020•48 min•Season 3Ep. 129
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power show what people really think and feel so we can create experiences that matter. My guest is Paul Zak, CEO of Immersion. Paul is a scientist, entrepreneur and author of several books. His newest book is "Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High Performance Companies." Paul’s two decades of research have taken him from the Pentagon to Fortune 50 boardrooms to the rain forest of Papua New Guinea. All this in a quest to under...
Aug 24, 2020•48 min•Season 3Ep. 128
This podcast interview focuses on the heroics and entrepreneurship we have witnessed in the past three months of the pandemic. My guest is Vinnie Mirchandani. Vinnie has become a regular guest on my podcast. In fact, it was only 7 months ago where we discussed ‘a decade in review’. He’s the founder of Deal Architect - a Technology strategy and negotiation firm listed as a leading "boutique" by the Black Book of Outsourcing. Earlier in his career he had various technology consulting roles at PwC ...
Aug 17, 2020•36 min•Season 3Ep. 127
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to enable us to achieve results and grow in ways we’d not be able to achieve on our own. My guest is Gina Bianchini, CEO of Mighthy Networks. Gina Bianchini is an American entrepreneur and investor. Before Mighty Networks, she was CEO of Ning, which she co-founded with Marc Andreessen. Under her leadership, Ning grew to 100 million people in 300,000 active social networks across subcultures, professional networks, entertainm...
Aug 03, 2020•40 min•Season 3Ep. 126
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to transform how we manage and deliver projects. My guest is Gregory Stoos, CEO of Planless. Gregory has over 15 years of experience in entrepreneurship and managing positions. Besides founding Planless, he also co-founded Apperativ, a new generation software development company. Prior to that he’s been responsible for building top-level and disruptive products in the technology world or the marketing and advertising space. ...
Jul 28, 2020•45 min•Season 3Ep. 125
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation around voice automation that has the power to connect with your customers in seconds. My guest is Ricardo Garcia-Amaya, Co-founder and CEO of VOIQ. Ricardo is a YCombinator alumnus and was recently recognized as a Silicon Valley Top Diverse Tech 40 Under 40. He has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, and an undergraduate degree in Politics from NYU. Ricardo is an Aspen Institute Innovator Fellow as well as an NYU Stern Berkley Center for...
Jul 21, 2020•55 min•Season 3Ep. 124
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to give us memorable experiences without having to give up our privacy. My guest is Ofer Tziperman, CEO Anagog He has 20 years’ experience as an entrepreneur and leader of High Tech private and public companies. He served as the CEO of OTI, a leading developer of NFC-based payment solutions and as the CEO of Parx, a provider of on-street parking payment solutions. In 2000 Ofer co-founded LocatioNet Systems, a pioneer in the ...
Jul 13, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 123
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to enable business around the globe to leverage the world-changing potential of their data. My guest is Herman Heyns, CEO of Anmut Herman is an experienced professional with nearly 30 years experience in Finance, Technology, Data & Analytics and Value Management. He was a former lead partner at Accenture, KPMG and EY. In 2018, he founded Anmut together with Professor Andy Neely, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Cambridge University. T...
Jul 06, 2020•49 min•Season 3Ep. 122
This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to help us all feel 'in our zone' more quickly at work. My guest is Dr. Shama Rahman, CEO of NeuroCreate Dr. Shama Rahman is an accomplished musician, vocalist, songwriter, with a PhD in philosophy, neuroscience and complexity. In December 2017 she founded Neurocreate – a startup at the junction of AI, Neuroscience and cognition. It was founded around the vision that peak performance is not just for highly trained elites, bu...
Jun 29, 2020•39 min•Season 3Ep. 121
