Today on That Tech Pod, Laura, Gabi, and Kevin talk to Phil Shellhaas, Executive Vice President of eDiscovery Services. Phil brings two decades of litigation support experience to his leadership role at Trustpoint.One. Most recently he served as Senior Director of Legal Services for Trustpoint’s Electronic Discovery Services organization, where he strategically advised some of the world’s largest corporations about data reduction optimization. During his career, Phil has held several organizatio...
Dec 06, 2022•47 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Kevin talk to Ian McConnell. Ian is a recovering gifted child with a fear of disappointing people. A singer-songwriter by day, goofy social media personality of moderate notoriety by (also) day, and sleepy-head by night, Ian has been referred to as “Kroger-brand Ed Sheeran,” “sexy Kermit The Frog,” and “a stupid piece of shit” by a vocal minority of his 600k+ Tiktok and 230k+ Instagram followers. Though Ian spent the last few years attempting to be a country mus...
Nov 29, 2022•23 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Kevin speak with Kylie Uvodich. As a Head of Americas, Go-to-Market at SafetyCulture, Kylie oversees a committed team who support hundreds of businesses across the US to improve workplace operations, including JetBlue, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Air Canada, and Dollar General. With the power of innovative tech, her team helps to give workers a voice, leaders visibility, and unite teams to improve.
Nov 22, 2022•25 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with Haseeb Awan. Haseeb is the CEO of Efani , America's most secure and private cell phone service, which protects people against SIM Swaps, eavesdropping, and location tracking. Efani works like any other carrier, except Efani adds exceptional security to phone plans via an impressive security tech stack. Haseeb is also a co-founder of one of the first and largest bitcoin ATMs - Bitaccess - which has 8000+ locations in 15 countries. He is one of the ...
Nov 15, 2022•25 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Thomas Helfrich about how AI is spearheading the New Normal Of Digital Marketing. Thomas “AI Nerd” Helfrich is a technology guru, business innovator, and CEO of Instantly Relevant, Inc. (instantlyrelevant.com). Using a combinCation of emerging AI technology and expert human insight, his company helps founders, entrepreneurs, and startups earn more traffic, tap into new revenue streams, and capture the attention of “relevant” audiences. Upending t...
Nov 08, 2022•28 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk with Ziad Lammam, Head of Product for HP Anyware. Ziad leads product management, strategy and planning for HP Anyware (previously Teradici CAS). Has over 20 years experience in the end-user computing industry spanning desktop virtualization, remote workstations and cloud PCs. Passionate about creating unique and delightful customers experiences. Holds Masters in Business Administration at Simon Fraser University and Bachelor of Applied Science in Compu...
Nov 01, 2022•30 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura, Kevin, and Gabi speak with friend of the show, Cybersecurity expert, Naomi Buckwalter. Naomi details how she is closing the demand gap in cyber with her new non profit, Cybersecurity Gate-breakers. Visit https://www.cybersecuritygatebreakers.org for more info!
Oct 25, 2022•29 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Kevin talk with Andrea Giannangelo. Andrea founded Iubenda back in 2011, when privacy wasn’t really a thing, based on the intuition that the status quo was going to change. Many years later, Iubenda has 90,000 paying clients and is used by hundreds of thousands of websites and apps as a key tool to stay compliant. In addition, Andrea is one of the main writers of Transparency and Consent Framework (or TCF), US Privacy Framework and Global Privacy Platform, all i...
Oct 18, 2022•28 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Amit Modi. Amit is the CTO and CISO at Movius MultiLine, a trustworthy company heading mobile, voice, text, and WhatsApp communications within businesses and their customers worldwide. Amit is an entrepreneur, leader, a visionary, and technology executive who has successfully patented and commercialized innovation in security, mobility, conversational AI, large scale cloud infrastructure, and B2B & B2C SaaS platforms in highly regulated indus...
Oct 11, 2022•25 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Kevin talk to Katie Boeck. Katie is a singer, songwriter and actor originally from California where she earned a BA in Theater at UCLA. She played the Voice of Wendla in the critically acclaimed broadway revival of Spring Awakening garnering a Tony -nomination and a feature on The Nightly News with Lester Holt. Her rendition of Ave Maria was featured on HBO's The Newsroom and her cover of The Sign was recently featured on the hit reality show Love Island. She ju...
Oct 04, 2022•31 min
Today on this bonus episode of That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak to EY's Joe Pochron and Lou Bladel. Joe Pochron is the west region's digital forensic and insider threat lead for EY’s Forensic & Integrity Service Practice, based in San Francisco, CA. Joe’s expertise is in digital forensics, insider threats, and helping EY clients on complex cyber investigations and cyber incidents response needs. Joe has over 20 years of combined experience in digital forensics, cybercrime investigations, ...
Sep 29, 2022•43 min
Today, Laura and Gabi talk to Co-founder and CTO at Resurface Labs, Rob Dickinson. Rob lives and breathes APIs and how we can learn from user actions. Years at Intel, Dell, and Quest Software frame his passion for customer input, and to architect and build a scalable solution to solve for security, faster troubleshooting, and observability using real API data from real users. Rob is a versatile speaker and able to make complex technical topics accessible and compelling to audiences across the bo...
Sep 27, 2022•31 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Rachel Stern is a Senior Vice President for InState Partners, the venture capital arm of private equity firm, Advantage Capital. As the founder of the business line, over the last decade she has invested in and advised InState’s extensive portfolio companies on how to foster effective partnerships between innovative technology solutions and state and local governments across the country. Rachel is also a graduate of the CORO™ Fellows Program, an ...
Sep 20, 2022•41 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk with Raj Bains. Raj is the founder & CEO of Prophecy. Previously, Raj led project management of Apache Hive at Hortonworks through their IPO. He also headed product management and marketing for a NewSQL database startup. Raj continues to actively develop compiler and database technologies in his quest to create data tools “that don’t suck.” His engineering roles include developing a NewSQL database, building CUDA at NVIDIA as a founding engineer, a...
Sep 13, 2022•26 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with David Burnett. David Burnett has been working at security, identity, and authentication companies for almost 20 years. Early in his career, he spent seven years helping to make strong encryption successful and easy to use while at PGP Corporation and Symantec. Later, he focused on making biometric authentication easier and more popular than passwords. His work at Nok Nok Labs delivered early successes for the FIDO Alliance, an industry association...
Sep 06, 2022•30 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Ruslan Khamidullin. Ruslan is the Chief Technology Officer of Filmustage, a technology company that is streamlining the film production process using neural network technology. With 10 years of development experience, Ruslan has been able to develop the Filmustage technology to automate the script breakdown process, a painstaking task that is necessary in the production industry. Also a lifelong musician, Ruslan is well-versed in sound design. He...
Aug 30, 2022•22 min
Today On That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk to Will Plummer. Will is 25-year veteran of the US Army, where he earned a Bronze Star with Valor as a Master Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician, and commanded multiple Special Operations units with multiple combat deployments. He has an MA from the Naval War College and a BA from the University of California at Chico. Currently, Will is the Chief Security Officer for next-generation mail screening technology provider RaySecur . He leads the ...
Aug 23, 2022•39 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi chat with Electronic Arts' Tanmay Gaonkar. Tanmay believes that Data Privacy should not be on-demand, it should rather be built into the infrastructure. He is a data privacy professional, driven to operationalize Privacy and overcome related challenges using analytics and innovation. More often than usual, he finds himself navigating through highly complex data flows in an attempt to build and maintain accurate records of processing of personal information ...
Aug 16, 2022•27 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk to Ted Harrington. Ted Harrington is the author of HACKABLE: How to Do Application Security Right and the Executive Partner at Independent Security Evaluators (ISE), the company of ethical hackers famous for hacking cars, medical devices, and password managers. He’s helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thousands of security vulnerabilities, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and more. Ted has helped hundreds of companies fix tens of thou...
Aug 09, 2022•39 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk with Brandon Pugh. Brandon Pugh is a resident senior fellow and policy counsel for the Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team. Outside of R Street, he serves as an international law officer in the U.S. Army Reserve where he worked on the Army Cyber Institute’s critical infrastructure resiliency project. Brandon is also a board member for the Ithaca College Cybersecurity Program and for a governor’s advisory council. Brandon breaks down the American Da...
Aug 02, 2022•24 min
Today on a special bonus episode of That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Charles Fritzen. Charles did a form of gymnastics called Teamgym where he with his team won Swedish Nationals 7 years, and with the Swedish national team came second in the European Championships twice. Charles then moved to the US in 2016 and quit his job as a data analyst to work as a personal trainer after he got his certification. In 2019, Charles moved to the UK to live with his boyfriend and then started doing onl...
Jul 29, 2022•24 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Kevin Adler. Kevin Adler is a Cybersecurity & Data Privacy attorney who helps businesses, local governments, and individuals understand and navigate the legal issues posed by new technologies and cyber threats. Using his experience with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other federal agencies, Kevinprepares clients for the eventuality of a cybersecurity incident. Even in the absence of a direct threat, understand...
Jul 26, 2022•46 min
Today on That Tech Pod Laura and Gabi chat with Ryan Buick. Ryan is the Co-Founder of Canvas, a Sequoia-backed startup that is reimagining the traditional office suite for a data-driven world. Before Canvas, Ryan was one of the first Product Managers at Flexport. At Flexport, Ryan met his co-founders and saw how difficult it was for business teams to get the data they needed without knowing SQL or having to rely on technical teams for help. Frustrated with the current state of data tools, Ryan a...
Jul 19, 2022•32 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Anne Bradley. Anne is a lawyer, technologist, and business leader championing the responsible and ethical use of data in platforms and intelligent systems. Specializing in cross-disciplinary collaboration across legal, data, and technical teams, Anne’s recent work explores scalable technical controls to apply policy restrictions to machine learning models, and best practices for transparency, fairness and empowerment in user experience design. As...
Jul 12, 2022•43 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Horacio Zambrano. Horacio is the CMO and Cyber Strategist for Secret Double Octopus. He has been a leading evangelist in the industry for passwordless authentication and was also CMO/CSO of TruU. He has contributed his deep expertise in PMM and B2B marketing at several early-stage cyber startups including Virsec, Valtix, Mocana and OPSWAT; and ran the VPN product lines at Juniper and Cisco in PM director roles. Lastly, he was also a top-ranked Wa...
Jul 05, 2022•26 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Douwe Maan. Douwe is the Founder and CEO of Meltano, an open source platform for the entire DataOps life cycle. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Douwe has been around computers his whole life and began programming when he was nine. He joined GitLab as employee number 10 while in college and later became Engineering Manager. In 2021, Douwe led the internal Meltano project in spinning out of GitLab. www.thattechpod.com...
Jun 28, 2022•38 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with AI experts, PAI's Rebecca Finlay and Ernst & Young's Todd Marlin. Rebecca Finlay is the CEO at Partnership on AI overseeing the organization’s mission and strategy. In this role, Rebecca ensures that the PAI Team and our global community of Partners work together so that developments in AI advance positive outcomes for people and society. Most recently, Rebecca was Vice President, Engagement and Public Policy at CIFAR. In this role, Rebecca f...
Jun 21, 2022•45 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi talk to Cyber Siblings Anu and Sumeet Kukar. Anu is the 2022 Global Power 100 Women in Cyber and 2021 winner Australia’s IT Security Champion. She is passionate about paving a way to support professionals from diverse skills background to contribute in cyber. To achieve this, she is driving a global campaign Switch2CyberTM. Anu is known as the Cyber UntanglerTM who advises CxO and Boards with her 20+ years of experience in consulting and industry. She bring...
Jun 14, 2022•37 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Josh Miller. Josh Miller works as an investor at Blu Ventures, a Washington, DC based venture capital firm that invests mostly in early-stage (seed to Series A) SaaS enterprise companies, with a focus on cyber security. He's led investments in a variety of cyber and non-cyber companies including IoT cyber security, cyber threat intelligence, cyber fraud mitigation, automated penetration testing technology, drone-based physical security, and speec...
Jun 07, 2022•42 min
Today on That Tech Pod, Laura and Gabi speak with Beni Gradwohl, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cognovi Labs. Beni Gradwohl is Co-Founder and CEO of Cognovi Labs, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) company that focuses on measuring the emotional drivers behind human decision-making. Cognovi’s award-winning psychology-driven AI helps clients in the commercial, health and public sectors reveal how audiences are feeling in the moment, predict their action and intent, and then communicat...
May 31, 2022•39 min
