Change Wave

Change Wave

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Change Wave episodes

  • Pinterest: Candice Morgan

    Candice Morgan is the Head of Inclusion and Diversity at Pinterest, where she leads strategies to build a more inclusive and diverse global company. Previously, Candice spent nearly 10 years at Catalyst, where she designed strategic talent initiatives for global companies and firms across a range of industries. Candice holds an MS in cross-cultural psychology from Brunel University and a BS in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a frequent speaker and advisor at global conferences and events, a contributor to Harvard Business Review, and was recently honored on Fast Company's list of Most Creative People in Business & The Root 100 Most Influential African-Americans of 2017.

    34 min
  • Synchrony: Margaret Keane
    Margaret Keane is CEO of Synchrony. Prior to that role, she led the Retail Card platform as president and CEO beginning in 2004 and then expanded her responsibilities in 2011 to become president and CEO of their North American Retail Finance business. Through those years, she developed the leadership skills needed to manage a successful organization that has now become a Fortune 200 company five years post-separation. She was able to infuse a mindset of inclusion and innovation into 16,500+ employees which has driven an incredibly diverse culture for all employees to be their authentic selves. Margaret continues to transform Synchrony, positioning the company for long-term growth by focusing on innovation and technology. Margaret led the integration of the company’s strategic imperatives focused on accelerating growth and diversification, directing her management team to oversee areas including business strategy, venture investments and M&A, enterprise data analytics, customer experience, and expansion of the company’s direct to consumer banking and products strategy. Her passion for emerging technology has been a trademark of her 38-year career, as she fully embraces the need to integrate business and technology strategies – understanding that the two must co-exist. Margaret pushes Synchrony to be nimbler and move faster than ever. The company’s deep technology investments are paying off, driving initiatives to make consumer purchases seamless and frictionless.
    22 min
  • 10x Genomics: Serge Saxonov

    Serge Saxonov co-founded 10x Genomics in 2012 and has served as the CEO since its inception. He has defined the company's vision and strategy, contributed to core inventions, and led 10x through multiple phases of rapid growth. 10x Genomics is a leading company in the field of genomics. The company was founded on the vision that this century will bring unprecedented advances in biomedicine to transform the way we understand and treat diseases leading to dramatic improvements in human health.

    In 2016, he was honored as one of Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of the Year. Prior to 10x Genomics, Serge was Vice President of Applications at QuantaLife, where he was responsible for building content, driving new applications, and identifying key diagnostics opportunities for the core ddPCR technology. Before QuantaLife, Serge was the first employee at 23andme. As Founding Architect and Director of R&D, he defined the initial conception of the product, recruited a lot of the earlier team and built many key elements of the technology. Serge received a Ph.D. in biomedical informatics from Stanford University and an A.B. in applied mathematics and biology from Harvard College.

    26 min
  • Intuit QuickBooks: Kara DeFrias
    Kara's background is a mix of private and public sector experience, including Chief of Staff for the QuickBooks Online Platform at Intuit and Director of Experience Design in the Obama White House. In the former, she champions small businesses, solopreneurs, and freelancers around the globe. Prior, Kara received an appointment to the first class of Presidential Innovation Fellows, where she served as entrepreneur in residence, reimagining the relationship between the federal government and the people from a technology perspective. She was also Chief of Staff at 18F, TEDxIntuit founder, and worked on TurboTax, Oscars, and Super Bowl.   Kara does pro-bono digital strategy for the likes of Team Rubicon; spent 10 days in rural India teaching micro-entrepreneur women human centered design; and guest lectures at Stanford, George Washington University, and UC San Diego STEM Academy for high school girls. She graduated summa cum laude from Penn State with a masters in instructional design, and was San Diego Woman of the Year finalist. Twitter: https://twitter.com/karadefrias Website: https://www.karadefrias.com/.  
    41 min
  • Olo: Jackie Berg

    Jackie Berg is the VP of Marketing for Olo, the leading digital food ordering platform for the restaurant industry. Since 2005, Olo has been the interface in between the on-demand world and over 300 restaurant brands such as Applebee's, Chili's, Dairy Queen, Five Guys Burgers & Fries, Jamba Juice, Noodles & Company, Shake Shack, and Wingstop. Since Jackie joined Olo in 2014, the company has grown over 20x and today facilitates orders for millions of customers that use Olo to order ahead and get meals delivered from the restaurants they love. Prior to Olo, Jackie has held both tech marketing and in the agency roles researching consumer insights for companies like Applebee's, Reebok, and Sam Adams. She is passionate about the evolution of the restaurant space and is leading Olo’s in-car ordering R&D work with BMW Labs. Jackie has appeared as a speaker and panelist at restaurant and consumer technology events by BTIG, Cleveland Research, Datassential, Global Culinary Innovators Association, and others.

    24 min
  • Gusto: Danielle Brown

    Danielle Brown empowers the People Team at Gusto. From creating a productive and inclusive work environment, to finding and inviting great talent to join us, to ensuring Gusties have the training, development and support they need to do their best work, to running our People programs (Benefits, Compensation, GustoFIED, rewards + recognition), the People Team is focused on how to make Gusto a place where work can empower a better life for all Gusties.

    Prior to joining Gusto, Danielle served as the VP, Employee Engagement, as well as Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Google. And before Google, she was VP and Group Chief Human Resources Officer of Intel Corporation.

    25 min
  • Malwarebytes: Akshay Bhargava
    Akshay Bhargava serves as the Chief Product Officer at Malwarebytes. Bhargava brings nearly 20 years of experience in product, go-to-market and engineering leadership to the company. In this role, he is responsible for driving the company’s technology vision, product roadmap and execution. Before joining Malwarebytes, Bhargava was the Vice President of the Oracle Cloud Business Group. At Oracle, he led various aspects of Oracle Cloud across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. He also led the launch of Oracle Cloud Services for Security and Management. Prior to Oracle, Bhargava was a management consultant from McKinsey & Company, where he worked with numerous C-suite and boards on topics related to product, strategy, cybersecurity, and GTM. He has held a variety of product, marketing, and engineering leadership roles at FireEye, NetApp, and Rainfinity (acquired by EMC). Bhargava holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from MIT Sloan, with a specialization in entrepreneurship and innovation.  
    23 min
  • Diode Ventures: Brad Hardin
    Brad is a recognized global leader in technology and innovation within the design and construction space. Prior to his current role as Global Chief Technology Officer for Black & Veatch, one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms; Brad was a successful entrepreneur, architect, and technology executive. He is the author of  the book “BIM and Construction Management,” has lectured at a number of Universities and conferences and has received a number of awards including Ingram’s 40 under 40, ENR’s 20 under 40, the Manual and Lauren Rosen Service Award and the American Institute of Architects BIM Excellence Award. Currently, Brad is the President of Diode Ventures, the private infrastructure development arm of Black & Veatch; a recent intrapreneurial success within the enterprise where he leads a team that develops ground up renewable energy and data center infrastructure projects to better serve clients all over the world. Brad is an alumni of Kansas State University, an Advisory Board Member for the New School of Architecture and American Cancer Society volunteer. He lives in Overland Park, KS with his wife and three children Lucia, Wesley and Hugo.  
    28 min
  • Flywire: Mike Massaro

    As Chief Executive Officer of Flywire, Mike has grown the business from a concept into the global and growing company it is today. He has overseen Flywire’s expansion in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions while aligning Flywire’s international team with the company’s strategic direction and increasing the visibility of Flywire globally. Mike began his career as part of the technical risk services practice at PWC, LLP. His background spans global payments, mobile software and hardware, and e-billing at high growth technology companies, including Carrier IQ and edocs, Inc. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Babson College. Mike is also a 2019 recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Financial Services, which recognizes unstoppable entrepreneurs who redefine the way we live, work and play.

    23 min
  • Convoy: Tim Prouty

    Tim leads the engineering organization at Convoy. Prior to coming to Convoy, he founded and rapidly grew Uber's Seattle Engineering office. Before that, he was at Isilon Systems holding a variety of engineering leadership roles from individual contributor to Director of Engineering. Tim earned his BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington.

    34 min

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