Change Wave

Change Wave

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Change Wave episodes

  • UL: Christian Anschuetz
    Christian Anschuetz is UL’s Chief Digital Officer (CDO), responsible for embedding innovative technology and digital trends in operations to accelerate growth and enhance clients’ ability to predict and address regulatory and safety considerations in their value chains. He is passionate about the value trust brings to modern supply chains and the role data plays in delivering that trust.    Prior to joining UL, Christian was the CIO for Publicis Groupe, the 3rd largest communication company in the world. In addition to holding several other executive positions, Christian also founded a successful technology services boutique focused on cyber security, providing penetration testing and security services to firms as early as 1998.   Christian holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Strayer University. He is also a proud veteran of the United States Marine Corps and the founder of the innovative nonprofit, Project RELO. 
    28 min
  • Elizabeth Adams
    Elizabeth M. Adams is a native Minnesotan with over 25 years’ experience overseeing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) efforts within and across business sectors.  Elizabeth has led teams of subject matter experts in the implementation of countless technology & financial projects for Sprint, Nextel, Best Buy, 3M, Motorola, General Motors, ITT, Fannie Mae and several large Intelligence Agencies.   Elizabeth works at Thomson Reuters in technology integration at the intersection of Cyber Security, Data Ethics and AI Governance. To ensure AI innovation continues as companies, countries, and governments move to Trustworthy AI, Elizabeth advises on AI frameworks with a focus on positive social impacts.   Elizabeth is a Diversity & Inclusion in Artificial Intelligence practitioner, advisor, consultant, speaker, writer and author. She has facilitated Diversity & Inclusion learning events focused on racial and gender bias in Facial Recognition Technology, Video Surveillance, Predictive Analytics and Children's Rights.   Elizabeth’s community experience reaches far and wide.  She’s a former board member for the YMCA North Minneapolis, MN, Dress for Success, Washington D.C., and the National Black MBA Association, Washington, D.C.  Elizabeth serves her community as a City of Minneapolis appointee on the Racial Equity Community Advisory Committee.    Elizabeth holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management from Bethel University, a graduate certificate in Leadership Development from Johns Hopkins University and a Diversity & Inclusion certificate from Cornell University.  She is currently completing her MBA from Capella University.  Elizabeth also holds Project Management Professional, ITILv.3, Sec+ and Agile Scrum Master certifications. 
    44 min
  • Percolate: Randy Wootton
    Randy Wootton is the CEO of Percolate. Randy has been a leader and strategic innovator in the marketing technology industry for over 20 years.   Prior to Percolate, he served as CEO of leading predictive marketing platform Rocket Fuel, where he re-positioned the company and led its sale to Sizmek. During his career, Randy has held senior positions at Microsoft and Salesforce. He serves on the Board of Directors at Guidant Financial and Rally Point Networks and is a graduate of Harvard Business School, St. John’s College and the U.S. Naval Academy.
    26 min
  • Palo Alto Networks: Liane Hornsey
    Liane Hornsey joined Palo Alto Networks as Chief People Officer in September 2018. Liane previously served as Chief People Officer at Uber Technologies, Inc. where she helped transform the culture during a period of significant turbulence. Prior to that, she served as Chief Administrative Officer and Operating Partner at SoftBank Group International. In this role she traveled the globe helping portfolio companies scale and achieve unsurpassed human capital success. For almost ten years before joining SoftBank, Liane led People Operations for Google’s Global Business and became Google’s first female Vice President in Human Resources.   Liane has held senior leadership roles at lastminute.com Group, Virgin Media and BMG Music. Liane is widely recognized as one of the world’s preeminent practitioners in people operations as well as organization and leadership development.   Liane serves on the board of BUILD, a nonprofit organization that provides real-world entrepreneurial experience to empower youth from under-resourced communities to excel in education, lead in their communities and succeed professionally.
    27 min
  • Ripple: Asheesh Birla

    Asheesh is the SVP of Product at Ripple, which he first joined in 2013 to lead the development of their product suite. Asheesh is an industry expert on blockchain and is a frequent contributor, speaker, and advisor on blockchain and cryptocurrency. Asheesh started his career as an entrepreneur 15 years ago in Silicon Valley, where he founded a content management company that he later sold to Thomson Reuters, becoming their VP of Global Technology in 2005. After leaving Thomson Reuters in 2010, Asheesh advised and led product design at a number of startups in Silicon Valley. Most recently, Asheesh was included in 2018’s The Ledger 40 under 40, assembled by Fortune Magazine to recognize the superstars transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.

    24 min
  • 1010data: Daniel Horowitz

    Accomplished big data engineer and global technology executive with success growing companies from startup to highly impactful enterprise SaaS. Dan is a lifetime technologist who brings 10+ years experience managing global technology development and operations for 1010data, a pioneering company serving enterprise scale business intelligence tools and solutions. 1010data was recently acquired by Advance Publications for $500M. Prior to 1010data, Dan was a Developer on the Global Architecure Team of Accenture charged with building custom enterprise management software. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Rochester. Dan is on a life-long mission to achieve the impossible: to improve the data literacy of everyone in the world. By combining the power of moonshot thinking, a transformer mindset, and collaborative communities, he believes anything is possible.

    35 min
  • UserTesting: Andy MacMillan

    Andy brings 20 years of enterprise SaaS experience to UserTesting. As a former product executive at Oracle and Salesforce, he saw the critical role that customer centricity plays in creating great experiences. By helping companies become more customer-centric, he has grown multiple enterprise SaaS businesses to hundreds of millions of dollars.

    29 min
  • Global App Testing: Ronald Cummings-John

    Ronald Cummings-John has spent years building companies and writing software. After selling his first startup, he's now scaling up Global App Testing - a VC backed crowdsourced testing platform with over 20,000 professional testers globally, which was selected as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the United Kingdom. Ronald Cummings-John is also the author of the definitive book on testing, Leading Quality: How Great Leaders Deliver High Quality Software and Accelerate Growth. His passion for quality assurance (QA) has sent him around the world working with the top QA and product teams from companies such as Facebook, Microsoft, King.com, Spotify, Dropbox and many more.

     

    For more info, visit: 

    https://www.leadingqualitybook.com/ https://www.globalapptesting.com   
    31 min
  • Numerator: Chetan Ghai
    As Chief Product Officer at Numerator, Chetan Ghai oversees Product Engineering and Operations. Chetan has over 24 years of experience in a variety of industries, including retail and financial services. Prior to joining Numerator, Ghai held the role of Chief Product Officer at Narrative Science, an artificial intelligence company focused on Natural Language Generation (NLG) and was Chief Product Officer at ShopperTrak, a retail analytics company. His past accomplishments include launching new business units, transforming product offerings and leading large teams at companies such as Accenture, Capgemini, and CCC Information Services. He graduated from Duke University with a degree in biomedical and electrical engineering.  
    25 min

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