In this episode of The Bridge, I’m joined by Dante Orsini, Chief Strategy Officer at . We’re talking about building cyber resilience and the aftereffects of the rush to pivot workforces during the pandemic. is a managed infrastructure...
Apr 24, 2023•42 hr 40 min•Ep. 19
On this week’s episode of The Bridge, my guest is Avi Longstein, CEO of . We’re talking about the idea that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should, secure access service edge (SASE) and so much more. AireSpring is a...
Apr 17, 2023•39 hr 10 min•Ep. 18
Hi, and welcome to the Bridge. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. My guest on this episode of the Bridge is Terry Barbounis. He's the Director of innovation and Strategy at Lumen, or A director of innovation and strategy at Lumen. By his explanation, he gets...
Apr 10, 2023•44 hr 6 min•Ep. 17
Here are the links to two new CoreSite videos, mentioned in this episode: OCX Demo: Native Cloud On Ramps: Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. I'm Scott Kinka. My guest on this episode is Maile Kaiser. She's...
Feb 20, 2023•45 hr 41 min•Ep. 16
Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. My guest on this episode is Chris Reaburn, the Chief Marketing Officer of Nextiva. He's a Chiefs fan, and I'm recording this intro a day after the Super Bowl; one for the ages, and one of my Eagles did not win. So, as...
Feb 14, 2023•45 hr 10 min•Ep. 15
Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. My guest on this episode is Mark Palmer. Mark is the Vice President of Managed Services at Granite. Mark is a telecom lifer. His dad worked at Bell Atlantic. He was a service splice technician...
Feb 07, 2023•41 hr 22 min•Ep. 14
This is a SPECIAL EDITION of the Bridge Podcast with Scott Kinka. Over the last 6 months and 14 episodes, Scott has gotten the opportunity to ask some of the best minds in technology a plethora of questions, including "what is your favorite app" and...
Jan 19, 2023•58 hr 2 min•Ep. 14
Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. On this episode, we meet PPT Solutions, Dennis Weikle, who's the CEO, and Scott Casson, the Senior Vice President of Delivery. So, why PPT Solutions? Well, in full disclosure, Bridgepointe...
Jan 09, 2023•32 hr 25 min•Ep. 13
Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. My guest on the pod this week is Sanjay Srinivasan. He's the Senior Vice President of Solutions Engineering for Vonage. In his distant past, he served as the Chief Architect for Simple Signal....
Dec 19, 2022•40 hr 40 min•Ep. 12
Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. I'm Scott Kinka. My guest on this episode is D.R. Carlson. He's the Director of Segment Marketing for Equinix. We joked a little bit, I asked him what D.R. meant, he said “disaster recovery”. D.R. has been at Equinix...
Dec 13, 2022•36 hr 4 min•Ep. 11
Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. I'm Scott Kinka. My guest on this episode is Ashish Seth. He's the Vice President of Product Management at RingCentral. Ashish is a recent addition to RingCentral. He's got a legacy and contact center and that's his...
Dec 05, 2022•37 hr 24 min•Ep. 10
Hello and welcome to The Bridge. I'm Scott Kinka. My guest today is Emil Sayegh. He's the CEO of Ntirety, and a really interesting guy, Lebanese guy, Austin, Texas, UT grad, four kids, two of whom were in college, one at his alma mater, the other...
Nov 28, 2022•44 hr 2 min•Ep. 9
The Bridge Podcast - Cannon Intro Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. This episode was a special one. First, because it was in person. I don't get to do a lot of those. And second, because it was with one of our own from...
Nov 22, 2022•41 hr 7 min•Ep. 8
Hi, and welcome to the Bridge. I'm Scott Kinka. In this episode, I speak with Craig Patterson. Craig is the Senior Vice President of Global Channel Sales for Aryaka. He’s an interesting high energy, great guy, hockey dad, technologist. He runs his...
Nov 13, 2022•38 hr 36 min•Ep. 7
Hi, and welcome to the Bridge. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. My guest on this episode is Chris Sharp. He's the CTO of Digital Realty. It's not that often that I get to meet someone for the first time on the podcast, but here we were meeting on camera...
Nov 07, 2022•37 hr 1 min•Ep. 6
Hi, and welcome to the Bridge. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. My guest this week is Chris Jones of AT&T. He's the AVP of channel sales. For AT&T and ACC business. Chris has been with AT&T for 28 years. We laughed a little bit about one or two...
Oct 31, 2022•47 hr 44 min•Ep. 5
Hi, and welcome to The Bridge. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. This week I interviewed Tim Allen, Executive Vice President and Founding Partner of EvolveIP. Tim and I have been friends for nearly 25 years through a couple of companies, and in the interest...
Oct 14, 2022•27 hr 55 min•Ep. 4
Welcome to the next episode of the Bridge Podcast. I'm your host, Scott Kinka. This week we had the opportunity to sit down with Mike Nowak, who is the Chief Revenue Officer of BCM One. I won't steal his thunder, but if you're not familiar with BCM...
Sep 30, 2022•36 hr 59 min•Ep. 3
A few weeks ago, we sat down with Artie Chang, the CEO and founder of PanTerra Networks. Artie is a true tech entrepreneur. 15 years, self-funded with some local and regional investors, out there competing, surviving every day against the big tech...
Sep 08, 2022•34 hr 23 min•Ep. 2
In this quick 1 minute intro, veteran commercial technologist Scott Kinka outlines what you can expect from the forthcoming episodes of The Bridge.
Sep 02, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1
