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Kirsten Paquette is the Vice President of People & Culture at Brane, a Canadian financial technology company, with a focus on blockchain technology and digital asset custody offering products and solutions that make this technology accessible, secure, and useful for everyone. As a human resources specialist with deep recruitment experience in this rapidly emerging technology space, Kirsten discusses the fast growing emergence of career paths and employment opportunities within this ...

Matthew Gutknecht is a seasoned music licensing specialist and the Senior Director of Sports Entertainment at APM Music in the United States, where he skillfully negotiates the placement of music featured in top rated sports cable broadcasts with all of the major leagues, including the NFL, NBA and NHL and across all of the NCAA athletics programs. This episode captures Matthew's unique and holistic perspective on music and media, the entire sports entertainment landscape and how he serves up...

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Melanie Pump is a Chief Financial Officer based in Canada, with over 20 years of corporate experience. Her current role overseeing financial activities for the public company Plank Ventures has ensured that the company continues to invest and support the growth of tech entrepreneurs and their businesses. As we will learn from our conversation, Melanie’s unique path to success in finance and accounting was far from conventional. Aligned with her professional experiences, she has recently autho...

Marla Korpar is an experienced environmental engineer leading the energy efficiency movement with the implementation of solar energy across rural and metropolitan regions of the United States. Coupled with the attainment of academic and professional certifications, Marla has dedicated her professional life working towards a vision of a world powered by clean renewable energy - that is sustainable for future generations to harness for the benefit and well being of this planet. Marl...

John Arbour is an experienced cannabis industry strategist and the Director of Business Development at Treez - a leading enterprise cloud platform based in California (USA) at the epicenter of the cannabis industry, set up to streamline retail supply chain operations. John's forward thinking vision has seen him co-found a number of B2B technology platforms to date that have helped to accelerate the legal supply of cannabis for medicinal and recreational purposes across the USA. During this di...

Carl Black is an experienced investment professional currently working as the Chief Investment Officer of Deetken Impact Sustainable Energy. Carl is primarily focused on analyzing renewable energy projects and companies in Latin America and the Caribbean. On a daily basis, Carl works to deploy capital from Canadian and international investors for projects in these regions in an effort to help these companies generate a measurable, beneficial social and environmental impact, alongside a financ...

Catherine Chlebak is a highly experienced Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant from Canada who looks at ways to reduce the impact of illness on those returning to work using rehabilitation techniques such as exercise, physiotherapy and counselling that can restore function, enhance other skills or abilities and compensate for more impactful functional losses. Catherine’s 15 years of practical experience, combined with her academic credentials, has seen her take on fulfilling and affecting rol...

Tarley Jordan is an award-winning Communications Director from Australia currently residing in New York City, USA. Tarley has over 15 years of international experience in both consumer and business-to-business brands creating a broad portfolio of marketing, public relations and communications campaigns across retail, automotive, media, design and technology industries - most notably with clients such as Mercedes Benz and Audi. She has a passion for simplifying the marketing process with integ...

Israel Seoane González is a professional cinematographer from Spain creating thought provoking and emotional audiovisual content that promotes social issues around education, the environment, human rights, and social justice. Since 2005, Israel has collaborated on award-winning feature films, documentaries, TV series, music videos, video art projects and live event coverage, using various digital formats, cameras and styles in Europe, Africa and North America. Israel has mastered the art of c...