Change Wave

Change Wave

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Change Wave episodes

  • Drift: Elias Torres
    Elias Torres is the founder and CTO of Drift, the world’s leading conversational marketing and sales platform. Prior to Drift, he served as the VP of Engineering at HubSpot, growing their revenue to $100 million after the acquisition of his previous company Performable in 2011. Prior to Performable, Elias served as VP of Engineering at Lookery and spent the first 10 years of his career as an engineer at IBM.    In addition to starting, advising and helping early stage companies, Elias is passionate about building winning teams. He is also a community activist focused on supporting LatinX entrepreneurs across the US.   He has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur and TechCrunch.   
    26 min
  • ThoughtSpot: Sanjay Agrawal
    Sanjay Agrawal is a Co-founder and VP of Engineering at ThoughtSpot. He heads the company's Seattle Engineering office and currently focuses on the convergence of AI and BI technologies. Prior to ThoughtSpot, he worked at Google and Microsoft in the areas of large scale distributed systems, automatic database query optimization and search over structured data.   Sanjay has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
    29 min
  • LeafLink: Zachary Silverman
    Prior to co-founding LeafLink, Zach was the technical co-founder at ReachLogic, which was acquired in 2014. He brings 10 years of software engineering experience at leading tech companies, including eBay and Limewire, to LeafLink as Chief Technology Officer. LeafLink, the cannabis industry’s platform for orders, sales and relationship management, has raised $14 million in investor capital. The platform went live in Colorado in March 2016 and now has more than 3000 retailers placing orders for over 1000 brands across 20 territories. In February 2018, LeafLink was the first company in the cannabis space to make Fast Company’s 2018 list of Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise.  
    17 min
  • AT&T: Ryan Lutterbach

    Ryan Lutterbach is the AVP of Design at AT&T.   His team is transforming the company’s design culture at scale by educating and demonstrating the power of solutions driven by human insights.  He’s passionate about improving the lives of 170 million customers and 260,000 employees through the practice of modern design.  For the past 15 years, he’s led a variety of talented teams who ship awesome experiences and nail business goals.

    27 min
  • HP Inc.: Lesley Slaton Brown

    Lesley Slaton Brown is the Chief Diversity Officer at HP Inc. With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Lesley possesses a unique ability to align and build strategy across organizations and drive business outcomes within corporations - leading to her role in helping to create the most diverse board of directors in the technology industry in her role at HP. Lesley was twice recognized by Black Enterprise as a Top Executive in Marketing and Advertising, Savoy Magazine as a Top Influential Woman in Corporate America and was recently named to Adweek’s list of Female Disruptors and the YWCA Silicon Valley Inspiring Women Leaders.  Lesley believes strongly in giving back to the community, and has worked with Big Brothers, Big Sisters and has sat on the Board of Directors for The Boise State University Foundation, Boise State University Alumni Association, and the Idaho Black History Museum. Lesley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications with an emphasis in marketing from Boise State University. She was a NCAA scholarship recipient and lettered in women’s basketball. Lesley lives in Morgan Hill, CA, and works at HP Inc. headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.

    36 min
  • Keap: Clate Mask
    Clate has been educating and inspiring entrepreneurs for over a decade, and is recognized by the small business community as a visionary leader. His passion for small business success stems from his personal experience taking Keap( formerly Infusionsoft) from a struggling startup to an eight-time Inc. 500/5000 winner. As CEO, Clate is leading Keap on its mission to simplify growth for millions of small businesses worldwide.   Under Clate's leadership, Keap has landed four rounds of venture capital including a $55 million Series D led by Bain Capital Ventures with contributions from prior investors, Signal Peak Ventures and Goldman Sachs. He was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, a Top 100 Small Business Influencer by Small Business Trends, one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2013 by Goldman Sachs, and Business Leader of the Year by the Arizona Technology Council.   Clate is a national speaker on entrepreneurship and small business success, and co-author of the New York Times bestseller Conquer the Chaos: How to Grow a Successful Small Business Without Going Crazy. Clate has a BA in Economics from Arizona State University, as well as an MBA and a JD from Brigham Young University.
    25 min
  • TechSmith Corporation: Wendy Hamilton
    Wendy Hamilton is chief executive officer of TechSmith, where she is focused on leveraging her more than 25 years of experience in product innovation, growth strategy and global leadership to expand the company’s leading position in the visual communications space. She joined TechSmith in October 2015 as executive vice president, and was appointed CEO in March 2016.  Prior to joining TechSmith, Wendy was the global head of life sciences at Thomson Reuters where she held P&L responsibility for one of three businesses within the IP&S unit. She became part of the Thomson Reuters team through its acquisition of Liquent, an Adobe Ventures technology startup. Before that, Wendy worked in technology consulting for 8 years.     Wendy is a graduate of Haverford College with a broad background across strategy, technology, content and marketing. She is also on the Board of Directors for the Lansing Chamber of Commerce.    
    18 min
  • Apttus: Kevin Lynn Brown

    - 6 years hiring, training and leading enterprise UX teams
    - Design Thinking instructor and practitioner
    - 20 years experience in graphical user interface design for enterprise web applications, leading usability research, rapid prototype and testing techniques.
    - 22 years experience in web site design and graphic design with expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
    - 18 years experience in Agile development.
    - 7 years as a developer in Java, J2EE, JSP, SOAP and XML.

    20 min
  • HackerRank: Vivek Ravisankar

    Vivek Ravisankar is the CEO and co-founder of HackerRank, a company that is on a mission is to match every developer to the right job  based on skills, not pedigree. While Vivek was working at Amazon as a software developer, he and HackerRank co-founder Hari Karunanidhi noticed that instead of dedicating their time to coding and building new products, they often had to spend hours interviewing candidates for developer roles. Moreover, even after the long interviewing process, companies would often have new hires who didn’t actually have the skills needed to do the job, despite having traditional markers of success that employers screened for such as high GPAs and degrees from top universities. The hiring process for recruiters was clearly broken. To fix the problem, Vivek and Hari created HackerRank where companies can screen developers through coding assessments and developers can join the HackerRank community to practice their coding skills. HackerRank is now a Y Combinator alumnus that is backed by tier-one Silicon Valley VCs with total funding of over $58 million. There are 5 million+ developers in our community and we have 1,500+ customers from across different industries such as LinkedIn, Stripe, and Goldman Sachs who rely on HackerRank to build strong engineering teams.

    34 min
  • PagerDuty: Olivia Khalili

    Olivia Khalili brings 15 years of experience as a practitioner and thought leader in cross-sector social impact. Leading PagerDuty's global social impact, she works to mobilize the company's technology and employee talent to positively benefit society. Previously, she built Yahoo for Good, the company's social impact program, created and scaled initiatives to support social entrepreneurs with Ashoka, developed international trade education programs with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and worked in international development in Micronesia. Olivia currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for GreatNonprofits and CommunityConnect Labs, and lives in San Francisco with her family.

    29 min

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