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Behind Company Lines
By Hosts Julian Torres and Mike Townsend, sponsored by Otter LabsBusiness
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- Denise Thomas, COO of Cisco Meraki
As COO, Denise leads the HR, people, and operations and is the chair for the company's Black Professionals group. An experienced operator, Denise played a pivotal role in enabling Meraki’s growth, helping the team navigate its high-growth startup stage through a successful integration as part of Cisco Meraki. Prior to her eight years at Meraki, she held leadership roles at Uncommon Schools, Long Drugs Stores (CVS), TJX Companies, and Frito Lay.
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45 min - Geng Wang, CEO & Co-founder of Civic Champs
Geng Wang is the CEO and Co-founder of Civic Champs, a volunteer and mentorship management platform that triples volunteer capacity and retention for nonprofits.
Prior to Civic Champs, Geng co-founded two companies, Rent Jungle (an apartment search engine) and Community Elf (a social media management firm). Both companies were acquired in 2014 and 2017 respectively.
Geng is also a former McKinsey & Company consultant and holds a bachelors from Michigan State University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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34 min - Mark Lurie, CEO of Shipyard Software
Mark Lurie is the CEO & Co-Founder of Shipyard Software. He is a serial entrepreneur and investor who previously founded two venture-backed startups. Codex is a blockchain-based title registry for art & collectibles used in the offline auction world with 500,000 NFT titles created (ICO 2018). Prior to Codex, Mark founded an online marketplace for art & collectibles, which was acquired in 2016. Previously, Mark was an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, where his investments included Twilio (TWLO). He is currently a Venture Partner at FJLabs and a board member of GMO Trust (issuer of GYEN, the first Yen-backed stablecoin) and the Foundation for Art & Blockchain (a 501c3 nonprofit). He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Harvard College.
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34 min - Shawn Lipman, CEO of Feedonomics
Shawn Lipman is the CEO at Feedonomics, the leading full-service feed management solution provider for multichannel retail. Shawn is passionate about ecommerce and the role that technology can play in solving very challenging business problems for the world’s largest brands, retailers, and agencies.
An accomplished entrepreneur, Shawn employs his talents in leadership and problem solving to create an amazing culture that empowers people. He previously founded and sold a healthcare company that in 10 years grew to be the contracted provider for some of the largest healthcare chains in the United States.
Shawn is enthusiastic about building strong and enduring culture-based organizations. This appreciation was formed over 40 years of playing and coaching his beloved sport of rugby at the highest level, including representing the USA in the 1991 Rugby World Cup and being inducted into the US Rugby Hall of Fame.
His love for ensuring sustainable excellence and world-class performance drives Feedonomics’ commitment to the Feed On Principles, which are predicated on servant leadership, no egos, creating a learning environment, and going for the gap, among others.
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46 min - Kenneth Landau, Co-founder & CEO of Mytaverse
Kenneth Landau is the CEO and co-founder of Mytaverse, a leading enterprise metaverse company. Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, he attended Universidad Metropolitana, attaining a B.S. in Civil Engineering. He then attended the George Washington University for an MBA with a concentration in Finance. Landau then joined McKinsey & Co. in their New York offices as a Management Consultant for two years before acquiring and expanding the Mail Boxes Etc. franchise in the Latam region. Landau led the expansion of MBE in different countries in Latam for 30 years, building one of the most successful networks in the world. In 2020 Landau co-founded Comerxia inc, a technology company that enabled cross border commerce from the United States to any country in the world and the first back-end integrated technology with Amazon.com cart for international shipping and Customs calculations on the fly. He lives in Miami.
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37 min - Miles Everson, CEO of MBO Partners
Miles Everson joined direct sourcing platform MBO Partners in 2019 as Chief Executive Officer.
Most recently, Everson served as Global Advisory and Consulting CEO for Pricewaterhouse Coopers, LLP (PwC), leading the company's Asia Pacific Americas Advisory and Consulting businesses.
Before joining MBO, Everson had a rich career with PwC, almost three decades in total. He began in the firm's Assurance practice, moving to leadership roles within Advisory/Consulting in both Canada and the U.S., including several Financial Services leadership roles, and eventually became the U.S. Advisory/Consulting Vice Chairman. In 2015, he stepped into the new role of Asia Pacific Americas Advisory and Consulting Leader to help globalize the Advisory/Consulting practice.
Everson has worked with many of the world's largest and most prominent organizations, specializing in executive management. He helps companies balance growth, reduce risk, maximize return, and excel in strategic business priorities.
He is a sought-after public speaker and contributor and has been a case study for success from Harvard Business School.
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35 min - Chris Kirsch, Co-Founder & CEO of runZero
Chris Kirsch is the CEO of runZero, a company he co-founded with Metasploit creator HD Moore to help companies solve their asset inventory challenges. Chris started his career at an InfoSec startup in Germany and has since worked for PGP, nCipher, Rapid7, and Veracode. He has a passion for OSINT and Social Engineering. In 2017, he earned the Black Badge for winning the Social Engineering Capture the Flag competition at DEF CON, the world’s largest hacker conference.
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46 min - Annafi Wahed, Founder & CEO of The Flip Side
Annafi Wahed, CFA, has a broad array of experience spanning the federal government, non-profit, political and private sectors. In 2016, she left her role as a Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young to join the Democratic campaign. Walking door to door, she saw firsthand how next-door neighbors could be completely isolated from one another by the media they consume. Annafi launched The Flip Side as a passion project in 2017, and has since spearheaded each new stage of the venture.
The Flip Side is a startup on a mission to help bridge the gap between liberals and conservatives. Through their free daily newsletter they offer a one-stop shop for smart, concise summaries of political analysis from both conservative and liberal media. They recently launched a forum which uses human-centered design principles and a custom ranking algorithm to reward thoughtfulness and bipartisanship, rather than trolling or clickbait.
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33 min - Alex Yevlakhov, Chief Operating Officer of Jumbo Exchange
Alex Yevlakhov, COO of Jumbo Exchange – After entering the Web3 space for the first time in 2016, he has worked on facilitating ecosystem growth in EOS and Solana. He holds a Master's degree in International Relations from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and is fluent in English, German, and Russian.
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38 min - Layne Nadeau, Founder & CEO of Nval.com
Layne Nadeau is the Founder and CEO of Nval.com, a B2B company producing mark-to-model NFT price and market analytics data for regulated (or any) companies and platforms.
Layne has led multi-million dollar initiatives in retail banking, investment banking, blockchain, and digital asset industries as well as US state governments, public sector, commercial and retail automotive services, public utilities, transportation, professional associations, and universities.
Layne has a bachelor’s degree in Math and Computer Science and is genuinely excited about digital asset markets, and ecosystems and is building to enable this new technology space.
Layne is a father to 3 girls, a husband, an avid cyclist, sailor, brewer, world traveler, and NFT/DeFi degen.
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