Richard Earnest is a six-time CEO, leadership expert, and author of the new book - Leading with Ethics and Humanity - Do you have the guts? We speak with Richard about his new book, what it was like as a first-time book author, and how the lessons he learned leading in the US Navy and as a CEO and board member shaped his perspective on ethical leadership. Richard is one of my favorite people to talk to and I can't wait to get started.

As a member of the Jones Lang LaSalle tenant representation team, Austin is responsible for leading corporate accounts through their strategy implementation, coordination, and market research needs. His knowledge in accounting, financial analysis, and asset pricing theory support both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of a real estate transaction.

This week's guest was Bo Blackburn and Jeff Daily, co-founders at Sellers Shield. Sellers Shield is revolutionizing the way that seller's disclosures are handled during real estate transactions and helping to radically evolve the way that real estate transactions are handled through their next-generation cloud platform.

That was Jonathan Sass, vice president of product and marketing at Vyopta. Vyopta is helping customers get the most out of technologies like Zoom, Slack, and MS Teams while integrating in-person participation for folks returning to the office. There's never been a better time to explore how platforms like Vyopta's digital collaboration experience management platform can help and I'm anxious to dig in. Welcome to this week's episode of Capital GEEK.

Joe Schreiber is CEO and founder at AppNovi. Joe and his co-founder Ethan Smart have spent the last 20 years in various cybersecurity roles. They founded AppNovi to solve a gap in the marketplace that they kept running up against while doing incident response, cybersecurity risk analysis, and threat hunting. I love working with founders who are authentically solving problems that they themselves have experienced as practitioners and Joe is doing exactly that at AppNovi. If you work in cybersecurity or as a part of an IT team this is an episode you won't want to miss.

That was Denny LeCompte, CEO at Portnox Security and one of the most well-respected product leaders in the world. Today we're going to talk to Denny about the evolution of user experience discipline, how UX expertise is critical for success with product-led growth, and why building a solid and scalable marketing automation system is a core part of preparing any software business for rapid growth.

Debbie Madden is an award-winning serial technology entrepreneur, CEO, founder, board member, thought leader, author, and advisor with a 26-year track record of scaling profitable technology startups.

On this episode of CapitalGeek, Debbie chats with host Josh Stephens about her background, the importance of making an investment in your team, how to build trust within your organization, and her role as founder and chairwoman of Stride Consulting.

Andrew Kahl, CEO of Backbox, has a strong track record of growing and leading early and mid-stage companies into stable organizations.

On this episode of CapitalGeek, he chats with Josh Stephens about:

-Best practices for incoming executives that are dealing with existing teams and product lines that they're now responsible for.

-Five things to focus on as a network administrator

-The importance of 30, 60, and 90-day plan.

Plus hear about his new role at Backbox as CEO and what Backbox does in the network automation space.

Jack Naglieri, Founder and CEO of Panther, is a professional with a passion for information security, cloud infrastructure, and security software.

On this episode of CapitalGeek, he chats with Josh Stephens about:

👉 His background and where his exposure to information security began

👉 The growing importance of cybersecurity

👉 Why great communication is key to helping your team stay in sync with the mission

Plus hear about how Panther helps companies detect and prevent security breaches in the cloud-first world.