Aryaka Dreamers & Doers

Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst atZK Research, joins us for this episode of Aryaka Dreamers & Doers in which we discuss Zeus’s unlikely career path and his keys to success as an analyst, includingavoiding vendor bias,the importance of building a community of experts and having both thedata andconviction to support analysis. We also discuss which emerging IT trends excite Zeus the most from 5G and AI to SASE.

In this episode of Aryaka Dreamers & Doers, we speak with Balaji Aravamuthan, CIO at UPL, a global leader in biosolutions for sustainable agriculture. We discuss Balaji’s unusual career path from finance to technology, how today’s emerging workforce is influencing the evolution of employment and how the pandemic has impacted, and continues to shape, the company’s technology strategy.  

In this episode of Aryaka Dreamers & Doers, we speak with Michael Rivera, President and COO at ProView Global (PvG), a leading provider of knowledge process outsourcing services that specializes in benefits administration.  

We discuss the importance of building a company culture that can not only attract, but also maintain talent and why that, coupled with exceptional connectivity, is especially critical in the benefits administration space (“Access to talent is only possible with exceptional network connectivity!”). We also discuss how ProView Global was able to go fully remote in a matter of days in response to the global pandemic in 2020, their pivot to more agile decision-making as a result and how Michael sees technology evolving the future of employee benefits administration.

In this episode of Aryaka Dreamers & Doers, we speak with Lucas Goh, Director of IT at Volex, a leading integrated manufacturer of performance-critical applications and power products. We discuss how the importance of embracing change – no matter how uncomfortable – is key to innovation and survival for any business, how Lucas has honed his leadership skills throughout his tenure at Volex and the architectural shifts happening within the industry as a direct result of the global pandemic. 

In our first episode of Dreamers and Doers, Mehul Patel, Technical Director of Infrastructure & Security at Amyris, shares how the California-based global biotechnology adapted to the new work-from-home normal and how an unpredictable 2020 helped shape the company’s 2021 IT strategy.