Change Wave

Change Wave

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Change Wave episodes

  • Cruise: Mohamed ElShenawy
    Mohamed “Mo” ElShenawy is a Vice President of Engineering at Cruise–the San Francisco-based self-driving tech company. With more than 20 years of software engineering and leadership experience, Mo leads the largest department at Cruise. Mo’s teams, comprised of over 750 engineers, are responsible for our AV Development, Product and Mapping Engineering, Data and Machine Learning Platforms, On-Premise and Cloud Infrastructure, Engineering Productivity, PaaS, and other functions, working in harmony to massively accelerate our rate of progress.   Prior to Cruise, Mo led global technologies for Amazon ReCommerce Platform, Warehouse Deals, and Liquidations: a massive scale global business that enables Amazon to evaluate, price, sell, liquidate, and donate millions of used products daily. Prior to that, Mo led all engineering for SCH Business Solutions to deliver enterprise, customer-centric solutions to many Fortune 100 companies. In addition, over the past decade, Mo was a technical co-founder and CTO for three tech startups, the latest of which is a cloud-based financial services development platform used by top financial institutions.
    27 min
  • Paycor: Karen Crone

    Karen is responsible for scaling Paycor’s people practices in support of its rapid growth and for reinforcing its strong culture across an evolving geographic footprint. Before Paycor, Karen held leadership positions at American Modern Insurance Group, Kendle International, and Convergys.

    24 min
  • ServiceTitan: Chris Trombetta

    Chris Trombetta currently serves as the Chief People Officer for ServiceTitan. Prior to ServiceTitan, Chris was the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Talent (HR) for Red Bull North America where he created the strategy practice and led a HR transformation. Earlier in his career, he worked for Bain & Company, a leading global management consulting firm, focused on consumer products and media & entertainment clients and as an infantry officer in the United States Army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

    40 min
  • Moogsoft: Dave Casper

    Dave is CTO | CISO at Moogsoft, who are pioneering AI for IT Operations (AIOps) across all industries, ranging as diverse as airlines, rideshare companies, global banks, pharmaceuticals, energy companies, clothing brands, gaming developers and even the most renown luxury houses of Paris!  AIOps is a super exciting field where the best of machine learning and data science are part of the very fabric of global digital transformation.  Before joining Moogsoft, Dave led architecture, cloud and infosec for some of the world's largest Wall St. financial institutions, including Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, UBS and Deutsche Bank.  Dave has served as co-chair of the Open Datacenter Alliance (ODCA) infrastructure working group, a cross-industry consortium that worked to standardize cloud-native approaches in the early, formative days of cloud.  Dave loves to code, travel, beach, ski, guitar and play tennis and video games with his sons.

    22 min
  • Boeing: Satyen Yadav
    Satyen Yadav serves as the Chief Technology Officer and head of software development for Boeing Digital Solutions & Analytics. He manages a global organization responsible for all external‐facing software development in support of digital aviation business. He is responsible for creating the vision and direction for digital product architecture, agile development methodologies, cloud service architecture, and security practices. Satyen is also responsible for providing industry technology leadership for airlines, MROs, and other commercial aviation and regulatory agencies. Before joining Boeing, Satyen was General Manager at Amazon Web Services and led the global product, software engineering, and P&L portfolio for the Internet of Things (IoT) cloud‐to‐edge, Machine Learning at the edge, and edge computing services. His team developed and launched many innovative service offerings including one of the world's most innovative edge computing platforms called AWS Greengrass, Amazon FreeRTOS – an open source IoT OS for building intelligent embedded systems, AWS IoT 1‐Click ‐ a turnkey service for customers wanting fast IoT results with ready‐to‐deploy devices and pre‐built cloud services, and machine learning at the edge service. These services are available globally and have thousands of active developers and customers from many industries. Before joining Amazon, he was General Manager of IoT and Wearable Solutions at Intel Corporation and led a global organization to deliver hardware and software solutions for IoT and wearable devices. Before this, he held global leadership positions in engineering and business functions at Intel and helped establish new businesses in wireless networking and cybersecurity areas. Satyen holds an MBA degree from Northwestern University (Kellogg) and a master’s degree in Computer Science from Iowa State University. Satyen was named one of The World's Top 50 Cloud and Edge Computing Influencers (AMERICAS50 and EDGE50), by Data Economy in 2018. He holds over 20 patents in distributed & cloud computing, networking, and Internet security innovations.  
    34 min
  • Contrast Security: Jeff Williams

    Jeff brings more than 20 years of security leadership experience as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Contrast Security. Previously, Jeff was co-founder and CEO of Aspect Security, a successful and innovative application security consulting company acquired by EY.  Jeff is also a founder and major contributor to OWASP, where he served as Global Chairman for 10 years, and created the OWASP Top 10, OWASP Enterprise Security API, OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet, and many more popular open source projects. Jeff has a BA from Virginia, an MA from George Mason, and a JD from Georgetown.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/planetlevel/ @planetlevel

     

    33 min
  • Marqeta, Inc.: Tony Ford
    Tony Ford, Marqeta’s Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for the organization’s long-term technology strategy and vision. Tony has more than 15 years of experience in leading high performing teams to deliver technology-differentiated solutions across different industries. Prior to joining Marqeta, Tony spent several years building web applications and community-driven video game tools for IGN Entertainment and brands such as Rotten Tomatoes. Under Tony's leadership, the team at IGN built a modern, scalable, service-oriented platform and mobile team. Tony’s specialties include open source software, distributed computing, web development, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and agile and lean product development.
    31 min
  • Google: Sherika Ekpo
    Sherika Ekpo (she/her), a native of the D.C. Metropolitan area, joined Google as the Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lead for the Artificial Intelligence and Research product area. Prior to Google, Sherika served as the Head of People Operations at the United States Digital Service (USDS). Sherika has over 15 years of experience and a diverse set of skills in recruiting, data analysis, diversity, training and public policy. She has worked in both the public and private sectors with enterprises such as JP MorganChase, General Electric, and the Department of Homeland Security, just to name a few. She received her Masters of Business Administration from the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and Bachelors of Business Administration from Howard University.    Outside of her professional experiences, she is a loving wife to Anyanime, and mother of three children, Oshae, Amari, and Ayanna. In her spare time, she loves to travel, spend time with friends, and watch Grey's Anatomy. 
    33 min
  • WIN: Women in Innovation: Maria Potoroczyn

    Maria Potoroczyn is VP of Strategy & Innovation and a Venture Catalyst at Citibank’s Global Consumer Bank. In her role, Maria leads mission-critical initiatives in designing the future of consumer finance and creates connectivity between Citi Ventures and lines of business.

    Maria is also Co-Founder and Board Director of WIN: Women in Innovation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with a mission to close the gender gap in the field of innovation. Under her leadership, WIN grew its community from 20 to 3,000 members, expanded the team from 3 to 35, and established presence in San Francisco and London chapters beyond New York's home-base.

    Maria has a track record of solving some of the most complex business challenges by combining her grounding in human-centered methodologies with a strategic rigor built over years of working with senior executive teams at Fortune 500, PE-backed companies, and nonprofits.

    Maria is a frequent speaker, co-author, workshop leader, and programmatic advisor at industry conferences, including Fast Company Innovation Festival, NYC X DESIGN, SXSW, Experience Fighters, amongst others. She has also appeared at Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, New York University, and Parsons The New School as a guest lecturer.

    Maria holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology, media and communications from Goldsmiths College and a master’s degree with distinction in innovation management from Central Saint Martins.

    Maria resides in New York City with her husband and two young daughters, who are currently CEOs of her household.

    *as mentioned at the end of the podcast, you can follow Women in Innovation on instagram here: @womenininnovation

    35 min

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