Data Leadership for Everyone

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This week we meet Evan Cummack, the CEO of Fin, for a riveting conversation about driving process improvements with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Regardless of whether you lean more technical or more business, this episode is worth checking out!

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About Our Guest:
Evan Cummack is the CEO of Fin, a company shaping the future of work, founded by former Facebook VP Sam Lessin and Venmo Co-Founder Andrew Kortina. Fin Analytics is a cloud-based, comprehensive measurement platform for operations that helps leaders drive efficiency and reduce operating expenditures through data-driven process improvements.

Prior to Fin, Evan was a General Manager at Twilio, the fastest growing SaaS company in history by revenue. Evan joined Twilio in 2011 as one of the company’s early employees and helped to shape the company’s unique “middle-out” sales strategy, as well as led the development of new products and businesses over the course of a decade.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cummack
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cummack/
Fin: https://www.fin.com
Fin’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fin-assistant/
Fin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/finexploration

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In this week’s episode, we hear from Kirk Marple about his new business, Unstruk Data. They are taking an innovative approach to helping organizations navigate their mountains of unstructured data. This episode flew by – enjoy!

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About Our Guest:
Kirk Marple is a customer-focused technology leader with over 25 years of experience. He is the CEO and Founder of Unstruk Data, a company that is building the industry’s leading Unstructured Data Warehouse for automating data preparation via metadata enrichment, integrated compute, and graph-based search. Unstruk Data has raised $3.5m in seed funding with launch in July ‘21.

Former Microsoft, General Motors, and STATS leader – Kirk has extensive expertise in architecting and managing teams developing APIs and scalable services, leveraging on-premise and cloud infrastructure, generating significant cost savings and supporting revenue growth for startups through Fortune 25 companies. He holds multiple patents and industry awards, and has truly established himself as an industry trailblazer.

Unstruk Data: https://www.unstruk.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirkmarple
Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/KirkMarple
Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/unstruk

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This week we make good on our promise to get Peter Aiken on the show! This is the first of a series of conversations with Peter around the Enterprise Data Executive and the strategic considerations of building meaningful data capabilities in our organizations. Peter has an uncanny ability to link concepts in sensible ways that makes us wonder why we haven’t been thinking like this all along. This episode will really get you thinking!

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About Peter Aiken, PhD:
Peter is an acknowledged Data Management (DM) authority, an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, past President DAMA International, and Associate Director of the MIT International Society of Chief Data Officers. For more than 35 years, Peter has learned from working with hundreds of data management practices in 30 countries including some of the world’s most important. Among his 12 books are the first on CDOs (the case for data leadership), the first describing the monetization of data for profit/good, and the first on modern strategic data thinking. International recognition has resulted in an intensive schedule of events worldwide. Peter also hosts the longest running data management webinar series hosted by our partners at Dataversity. From 1999 (before Google, before data was big, and before data science), he founded Data Blueprint, a consulting firm that helped more than 200 organizations leverage data for profit, improvement, competitive advantage and operational efficiencies. His latest venture is Anything Awesome.

– Anything Awesome: https://plusanythingawesome.com/
– Books: https://plusanythingawesome.com/bookstore.html
– MIT International Society of Chief Data Officers: https://iscdo.org/

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This week we meet Mike Williams for a conversation about how no-code, low-code, and automation can play an important role in businesses of all sizes. Don’t let the “code” word scare you — this episode is appropriate for anyone trying to make the most of their data with limited resources!

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About our guest:
Mike Williams is the Founder of BuildLab, a digital development and automation studio. Leveraging a wide array of tools and expertise, Mike and his team build everything from no-code automations to fully-coded custom applications, and everything in between. Mike has also founded two event ticketing companies, MJ Seats and SharpSeat. MJ Seats was listed in the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies in 2017 and 2018, finding itself in the top 1000 both years. 

BuildLab: https://buildlab.co
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikewilliamsfounder
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikethough

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This week we welcome Michel Tricot and explore how open source is helping people move more data with less effort. As a data engineer, Michel is passionate about data pipelines and transformations. As an entrepreneur, Michel is building an organization to address an largely unmet need despite being in a relatively crowded space. If your organization needs to move data (and it does!), you should check out this episode!

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About Michel Tricot:
Michel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Airbyte, the new open-source ELT standard for replicating data from applications, APIs & databases. Michel has been working in data engineering for the past 15 years. As head of integrations and engineering director at Liveramp (NYSE: RAMP), he grew the team responsible for building and scaling the data ingestion and data distribution connectors, syncing 100s TB every day. After only five months, Airbyte raised $5.2M in seed funding from Accel, YCombinator, 8VC, and some high-profile business angels, including the co-founder of Segment, the former GM Cloudera, and the co-founder of Liveramp and Safegraph. 600+ companies have synced data using Airbyte in the first 6 months. 

– Airbyte: https://airbyte.io
– Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheltricot
– Twitter: https://twitter.com/airbytehq
– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AirbyteHQ