Fail Faster

Asma Malik is the Head of Robotics & Data Science at JPMorgan Chase & Co, a leading global financial services firm with operations servicing clients in more than 100 countries. She shares her interesting career path from being comfortable for a long time to shaking things up and finding herself taking risks and taking on uncomfortable challenges to learn and grow quickly. She is having fun infusing her creativity with advanced data analytics and creating reports with data that tells it's own story.

Phil Golub is the Executive Creative Director, Digital Product Innovation & Service Design Expert at Symphony Talent, this team is redefining how employers and talent connect. He shares his journey which started in Montreal, Canada with a spiritual and art background to an exciting career in creative software design. He shares how he wants to empower people to do their best work by creating the right products that work in perfect sync just like a musician creates a composition with different instruments playing in harmony to create music.

Sambit Behera is the Vice President for Product Management at BlackRock, a global asset manager helping investors build better financial futures.

Sambit shares his juicy failures which led him on a unique path as a Technologist and Economist, as he creates technology Product & designs User Experiences that solve complex business problems. He keeps his clients' pain at the forefront as he approaches product design and says that a good imagination of putting yourself in your customers, designers, engineers shoes is a key to creating empathy driven products.

Christopher Brereton is the partner and VP of Product at Sidebench which is a strategy, design, and development consultancy based in Los Angeles. Chris brings a fresh perspective to product design with his outcome first approach that dictates the product shape and form. His creative work is powered by the right intention of contributing value in a big way that goes beyond the product itself. He is also launching an apprenticeship program at Sidebench for any tech people out there who want to get a hands on experience into the exciting world of product design.

Kevin Raynolds is the Director of Client Strategy at TruStar Marketing the leaders in Mobile First Voice Search Engine Optimization, serving hospitals and insurers across the country, as well as global industrial clients. Kevin loves designing campaigns and seeing the results both instantly and how they do over time. He shares some great insights from the insurance world about how buying patterns changed during COVID.

Eric Rosenzweig is the VP of Information Technology at QDoba Restaurant Group, where he built the technology team after it was acquired from Jack in the Box by a private equity group. Prior to joining, he led Petco into the digital age while it rapidly scaled. In this episode, Eric stresses the importance of understanding and supporting the business in order to be a highly effective technologist.

Yes!! There is an exciting world where the built structures live digitally:) Badri Hiriyur Founder, CEO at T2D2.ai | VP, Director of CORE AI at Thornton Tomasetti joins us to share his awesome journey from learning seismic engineering to jumping into Computational Mechanics to now finding T2D2 which is a self-learning, AI-based software-as-a-service platform that automatically detects visible damage in a variety of building materials to track and catch small problems before they become big headaches. He is excited about the times we live in where buildings' health can be continuously monitored and looks forward to bringing this immense value to the industry as T2D2 gets ready to expand.

Josh Sharfman is the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for the California Association of Realtors. He also teaches computer science at Shalhevet High School and mentors his students through an internship program with the team he manages. In this episode, Josh reveals the ways he helps his team foster empathy with customers and communicate effectively within the organization and beyond.

Aju Joseph is a senior director of Product management at Fiserv, a leading global technology provider serving a major chunk of the financial services industry. In this episode he shares some key things to running a successful product and bringing value. Answering questions like why do we do what we do and creating a shared vision with the org. He talks about the descriptive, predictive and prescriptive insights that inform a product at any stage. There is a lot packed in this short episode.