Change Wave

Change Wave

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Change Wave episodes

  • Zillow Group: Lionel Lee
    Lionel Lee is the head of diversity engagement at Zillow Group. He provides career development support to underrepresented employees and works with executives to foster equity and belonging practices to improve employee experiences. He also serves as a connector between employees and community organizations. Prior to joining Zillow Group, he ran a talent acquisition company, sourcing candidates across the technology industry.   Helping communities has been constant throughout Lionel’s life. He created and developed community groups that promote health and wellness. He has worked with HIV/AIDS education groups, substance abuse addiction organizations as well as health groups for youth. Lionel also founded Yi Sport Tae Kwon Do, a school in Seattle that produced 54 U.S. Junior Olympic gold medals.   Lionel immigrated to the United States from Korea at age 5. His experiences growing up in South-Central Los Angeles and later in the projects of Honolulu, Hawaii, helped nurture his passion for community-building.
    36 min
  • Conga: Srikant Sharma

    Srikant Sharma is the Senior Vice President of Customer Success at Conga. Prior to Conga, Srikant ran global customer success at Marketo, where he led the company’s metrics-driven transformation to focus on the customer experience and journey across all touchpoints. Srikant previously held leadership roles at Open Text, HP and NorthboundDGS, a global revenue and customer marketing agency, and has a deep pedigree of building and leading passionate, high-performance teams. Srikant has an MBA from Cornell University, and a Bachelor’s in Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Bombay in Mumbai, India.

    21 min
  • ShopRunner: Lindsay Verstegen
    Lindsay Verstegen has been helping people in the tech spaces - from early days Groupon to early days and then later days Braintree and Venmo (eventually acquired by PayPal) and now at ShopRunner. At ShopRunner she leads the people team with special care towards creating the very best place to work in everywhere employees are. She and her team have spearheaded various initiatives developed to create a place where diversity can thrive. She’s always fiercely advocated for women and underrepresented folks inside and outside of the workplace, but ever since her first son was born in April 2016, her quest has been emboldened to shift the scales toward equality. Now as part of an executive leadership team that walks the walk while also talking the talk about diverse and inclusive workplaces, she feels she has the unique opportunity to be the change she wants to see in the world.  
    35 min
  • Splunk: Suzanne McGovern
    Suzanne McGovern is the Chief Diversity Officer at Splunk since August 2018. She began her career at a big four management consultancy firm working with clients in multiple industries in London and across Europe. She then moved to the Bay Area consulting at high tech companies and discovered her passion for Diversity & Inclusion and the next chapter of her career.   Suzanne is a dynamic diversity and inclusion leader who has a passion for sourcing, engaging and developing talent to drive a culture of performance. She believes that future organizations will only be successful if they are able to include, harness and unleash the power of diverse teams.   Suzanne is Scottish, her husband is Nigerian and her three kids—Sophia, Eva and Keir—are all from California. She likes to travel, work out and spend time with her family.
    14 min
  • Equinix: Charles Meyers
    Charles J. Meyers joined Equinix in 2010 as President, Equinix Americas, leading the company’s largest P&L through a time of significant growth and strong operating performance. Mr. Meyers then served as the Chief Operating Officer at Equinix, where he led the Global Sales, Marketing, Operations and Customer Success teams. For the past year, he was President, Strategy, Services and Innovation (SSI) leading Equinix’s strategic business teams including Corporate Strategy, Technology Innovation, and Product Management and Engineering. Under Mr. Meyers’ leadership, SSI worked to optimize the company’s position as a cloud enabler, identify key growth areas, and evolve our services portfolio in response to market, competitive and technology trends. Mr. Meyers has built a distinguished 25-year career in the high-tech industry. Before joining Equinix, Mr. Meyers served as Group President at Verisign where he led a P&L portfolio including the company’s Security, Communications and Mobile Messaging businesses. Prior to Verisign, Mr. Meyers held various executive positions at Level 3 Communications, including Group Vice President of Global Marketing, President of IP and Data Services, and Senior Vice President, Softswitch Services. During his tenure, Mr. Meyers helped Level 3 emerge as a premier global provider of Internet and VoIP services. Mr. Meyers also held senior operating roles at BellSouth, was a member of the pre-IPO executive team at Internet Security Systems and served as a Senior Associate with Booz-Allen & Hamilton Consulting. Mr. Meyers earned dual master’s degrees from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and McCormick Graduate School of Engineering. He also holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado.  
    26 min
  • Unisys: Vishal Gupta

    Vishal Gupta is a global CTO and Senior Vice President, Technology at Unisys. Vishal leads the global technology and product organization across six global centers and over 1500 technology associates and leads a global technology business of over $700 M in close partnership with sales. Prior to Unisys, he was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Product Management at Symantec responsible for five product lines in Cybersecurity. Mr. Gupta is a seasoned engineering and business leader with a proven track record in developing award-winning products and partnering with sales to profitably grow the technology products and services business. He has extensive experience in creating award-winning products and transforming industries by leveraging technologies like Machine Learning, Cloud, IoT, and Agile development. By partnering strategically with customers and partners, Vishal has been able to transform both the experience and the value associated with technology products and services.

    33 min
  • TEKsystems: Franklin Reed
    Franklin is the driving force behind the inclusion and diversity strategy for TEKsystems, an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services and real-world application. A leader with a deep passion for inclusion and diversity, he partners closely with TEKsystems’ corporate executives and business leaders to develop an enterprise strategy and initiatives that align to organizational priorities that impact their people and business.     Externally, Franklin consults with clients to explore opportunities that empower them to achieve their diversity hiring, compliance and supplier diversity goals. These engagements enable TEKsystems to outperform industry averages for placement of diverse technology talent across 6,000 clients.     Franklin has been with TEKsystems for over 18 years and understands the critical role a diverse and engaged workforce plays in achieving company objectives.     “My passion for inclusion and diversity is cemented in the idea that we are better, go farther and can accomplish significantly more to the degree that we’re able to leverage our differences and bring our authentic selves to work every day.”
    21 min
  • Boxed: Andrea Chesleigh

    Andrea has spent over fifteen years in Product and Tech and has led teams at startups and Fortune 500 companies, including One Kings Lane, Rent the Runway, Zappos, and Verizon.

    She is currently the VP of Product at Boxed. Andrea is passionate about solving hard (seemingly impossible) challenges, developing simple yet delightful products, building teams of entrepreneurial critical thinkers, and creating strategic outcomes with impact. She is a hands-on leader with a player/coach style, diving into the details with her team to partner, advises, and guide them to success.

    17 min
  • Revature: Ashwin Bharath

    Ashwin Bharath is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Revature, where he played a key role in the inception and execution of Revature's business model, including the design and development of Training, RevaturePro, curriculum, and core operations.

    As CEO, Ashwin is responsible for running daily facets of the company, creating the strategic vision and ensuring that initiatives align with the company’s core values and culture. With extensive experience in domestic and international markets, Ashwin leads the development and implementation of products and services for our clients.

    Previously, Ashwin held management positions with Satyam Computers. He has a Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology.

    24 min
  • JW Player: Pablo Calamera
    Pablo Calamera is the CTO for JW Player where he oversees all aspects of technology development and technical operations.  Prior technology executive roles range from startups to public companies including iconic enterprises like Vonage, iHeartRadio, and Apple.  Pablo helped Vonage pivot from a residential phone service to a leader in Business UCaaS, launched iHeartRadio’s first personalized and live radio products, and Apple’s icloud predecessor which launched coincident with the iPhone's debut, to name a few accomplishments.  
    34 min

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