Change Wave

Change Wave

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Change Wave episodes

  • Automation Anywhere: Prince Kohli

    Prince serves as Chief Technology Officer, bringing more than two decades of experience in the technology industry. He was most recently senior vice president of engineering at ThoughtSpot, a data analytics company. Prior to this, Prince held senior roles at Ericsson, running global R&D for all digital products with a team of more than 10,000 people and responsibilities for 92 product lines, including building large-scale cloud infrastructure and cloud-hosted management stacks. Prior to Ericsson, Prince held various executive leadership roles within the cloud and enterprise groups at Citrix, after co-founding a security start-up that was acquired by Citrix. While there, he worked with some of the world's largest companies and public cloud providers. Prince began his career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics.

    31 min
  • Taboola: Adam Singolda
    Adam Singolda is the founder and CEO at Taboola, the largest discovery platform, serving over 450 billion recommendations of articles, blogs, videos, products and apps to over 1.4 billion unique users every month.   Adam founded Taboola because he couldn’t find anything to watch on TV, and he thought  he should not be looking for TV shows but rather TV shows should be looking for him. The initial idea of Taboola was to build  a search engine in reverse -- instead of expecting people to look for information, he wanted to build an engine that surfaces relevant and personalized content to people when they are most open to discovering something new. Taboola now employs over a 1,000 employees with offices in 17 countries around the world. Taboola raised nearly $200M from Fidelity, Comcast, LVMH, Baidu, Yahoo Japan and currently partners with over 10k digital properties.   Prior to founding Taboola in 2007, Adam developed his engineering & analytical skills while serving as an officer in an elite mathematical unit of the Israeli National Security Agency (NSA) for nearly 7 years.    Adam has spoken on stage at TEDx with his dad comparing music to technology, Collision, DMEXCO,  Business Insider’s IGNITION, ClickZ LIVE, Advertising Week, Web Summit, NAB, MIT (Sloan), and Columbia. He has also appeared in broadcast TV interviews on Bloomberg West, CNBC, and Fox Business.   Follow Adam on Twitter @AdamSingolda
    25 min
  • Klaviyo: Andrew Bialecki

    Andrew Bialecki is the CEO at Klaviyo. Klaviyo is a technology company that combines customer data and marketing software. They help businesses of every size — from entrepreneurs to iconic brands — deliver amazing experiences across email and other owned channels.

    32 min
  • ScaleFactor, Inc: Kurt Rathmann

    Kurt Rathmann is the founder and CEO of ScaleFactor and a serial entrepreneur. He attended the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin where his experience in the Professional Accounting program developed his passion for financial technology. After his time as a Senior Audit Professional at KPMG in Denver, Kurt became the CFO of KNS Communications Consultants. In this role, Kurt implemented several enterprise systems, aimed at improving efficiency and visibility within the organization. He used that knowledge and insight to launch ScaleFactor in 2014. On a quest to change the industry, ScaleFactor merges the financial expertise of CPAs and CFOs with modern-day technology.

    19 min
  • Grove Collaborative: Stuart Landesberg
    Stuart Landesberg is the Co-Founder & CEO of Grove Collaborative, the leading digital-first brand & ecommerce platform for natural home and personal care products.   Stu has long been passionate about sustainability. He founded Grove in 2016, when he saw how far too few families really had access to healthy, sustainable home products through traditional retail channels. Grove, which has been a certified B Corp from the beginning,  now serves hundreds of thousands of households in the U.S. every month and has raised more than $100 million in total capital. In 2019 alone, the innovations Grove is driving in cleaning products will reduce plastic waste by 300,000 pounds, and fund the planting of more than 100,000 trees in the U.S.   Stu was previously an investor at TPG Growth, where he was involved in over $400 million in consumer and technology investments. Stu and his wife, Caitlin live in San Francisco with their two children and dog, and spend as much time outside as possible.
    29 min
  • Vertafore: Sharmila Ray
    Sharmila is the Head of Product and Strategy at Vertafore with responsibility for the direction and delivery of Vertafore’s entire product portfolio.  Prior to Vertafore, she was an Associate Principal and Senior Expert with McKinsey and Company’s North American Insurance Practice for 12 years.  At McKinsey, she served the insurance industry across property-casualty, health and life insurance.  Her area of expertise is in consumer and distribution strategy including consumer distribution preferences across personal and commercial lines, multi-channel distribution strategy and customer experience.  She is a published author of several articles that discuss consumer needs and behaviors in the retail and commercial property-casualty and life insurance markets.   She holds an M.B.A. from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a B.A. in Economics and English Literature from Wellesley College.
    29 min
  • BMC Software: George Kaempf
    Throughout a career spanning more than 30 years, George Kaempf has built and led successful UX teams in many different environments learning and evolving a user-focused process to fit in each situation.   Armed with a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, George Kaempf began his career in the world of Human Factors. For the first 12 years, he conducted field and laboratory studies of human cognitive behavior in complex and risk-prone environments and applied the learnings to systems design. He focused on understanding how people make decisions and judgements under time pressure and high risk and honed the skills needed to uncover cognitive performance in natural settings.    At Sun Microsystems George lead a design team for systems management in enterprise middleware. At Sandia National Labs he established and integrated a UX team into a development driven culture. Since those early days, he has led design teams building consumer products at Intuit and H&R Block, and enterprise software applications at Sun Microsystems and BMC Software. In all instances, he either built or re-built User Experience teams based on the principle that a deep understanding of users leads to better solutions. These better solutions lead to higher value for customers and businesses.   George is currently VP of User Experience at BMC Software where he leads a centralized UX team responsible for driving user focus throughout the company. This requires innovation in both the design and build of products and services while solving user problems first. The success of the team is seen in interactions with customers and ratings received from industry analysts.
    35 min
  • Policygenius: Jennifer Fitzgerald

    Jennifer Fitzgerald is the CEO and co-founder of Policygenius, the nation’s leading online insurance marketplace. She is one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business for 2018 and is one of only four women founders in Fintech to raise over $50 million in funding. Before starting Policygenius in 2014, she and her co-founder, Francois de Lame, were management consultants at McKinsey & Company. Jennifer has shared insights in major publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and more. Early in her career, she was a Peace Corps volunteer and did standup comedy. Jennifer is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Florida State University.

    39 min
  • RSA Security: Holly Rollo

    As Chief Marketing Officer, Holly Rollo leads RSA’s marketing organization and guides its ongoing digital and branding transformations. Over the past 25 years, Holly has led successful transformational initiatives that have driven growth, established global brands, and built operational scale. Holly is also a passionate diversity advocate, working to raise awareness and improve the cybersecurity industry’s deficiencies. She has authored numerous blogs, and participated in a number of panels on the topic.

    36 min
  • Asana: Alex Hood

    Alex Hood is Head of Product at Asana, a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work.

    As Head of Product, Hood leads Asana’s product strategy, planning, and the management of the entire product organization, which includes product management, design, and user research. Prior to Asana, Hood was a VP of Product Management at Intuit and led QuickBooks Online. Hood was also the VP of Product at TubeMogul, which is now Adobe’s Advertising Cloud and has held positions at the Nasdaq Stock Market.Hood has an MBA from UC Berkeley.

    43 min

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