Dean is the CEO of Virtual Power Systems. Through his 30+ year career, Dean he has driven $10B in infrastructure projects across 3 continents. His extensive architecture, engineering, and operations experience spans Hardware, Network, Data Centers, and Infrastructure Software at Sun Microsystems, eBay, PayPal, Uber, and two startup companies. Dean is also the founder and chairman of Infrastructure Masons, a professional association whose members represent over $150B in infrastructure projects in more than 130 countries. Dean is a Digital Infrastructure industry executive advising startups, fortune 500 companies, and investment companies. He has produced numerous award-winning innovations in mission-critical facilities and compute environments and holds four US patents.

Book Recommendation;

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Anthem is a co-founder of HeraSoft, the first company to bring to market and commercially deploy a ransomware-proof cybersecurity suite based on blockchain and distributed web 3.0 technology. HeraSoft's technology is based on the in-house-built, public blockchain software stack called Hercules (herc.one). Anthem is also a multi-time founder and is passionate about teaching novices all things crypto, including how to manage their crypto portfolio.

Resources mentioned in the show; Bitcoin-paper

Saumya is the CPO and Co-founder of involve.ai, an AI-driven Early warning dashboard that helps companies predict churn and revenue growth opportunities using customer data. Before starting involve.ai, Saumya co-founded a startup right out of high school in New Delhi, focusing on using technology to reduce gender-based abortions in India. She did her undergrad in Computer Science and went on to earn her Masters in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on Natural Language Processing. She is a Forbes 30 under 30 alum, winner of the Stevie Gold Entrepreneur of the Year award, recognized as the 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech by the National Diversity Council, and is on the list of Top 100 Women in Technology IBM. Saumya is a strong advocate of more representation for women in tech and is the founder of Saakaar, a nonprofit in India for women empowerment. When not working, Saumya enjoys binge-watching Netflix, photography, and traveling.

Nora Sheils is the co-founder of Rock Paper Coin, the first software platform to bring together wedding planners, couples, and vendors into one system for managing and paying contracts and invoices. She is also the founder and lead wedding planner of award-winning firm Bridal Bliss.  

Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn here: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-shei... 

Learn more about her business here: 

https://rockpapercoin.com

Dan is the co-founder of 401GO and he loves small businesses! Having started and been involved with over a dozen small businesses and startups, he has come to realize that business size is less important and that people matter. Culture is king!

Aaron is the founder & CEO of Vestwell, an entirely new kind of digital workplace savings platform transforming the way employers and employees are powering $33T in retirement savings for the benefit of everyone. Vestwell has built the backbone infrastructure engine removing the challenges financial services and payroll companies have had in providing high-scale, low-cost, flexible, modern workplace savings programs to smaller businesses and employees across the country.

Brad Hartman is the founder of BLC which stands for Bottom Line Consulting. Over the past decade, Brad has provided sports medicine consulting for professional athletes and members of the following organizations: U.S. Olympic Team, PGA, LPGA, NHL, MLB, NFL, and NASL. He also specializes in helping companies lower injury claims and the costs associated with them by providing content that focuses on the following: human kinetic durability, nutrition, ergonomics, and health psychology.

Ariel is the Founder & CEO of Microverse. Previously, he was the co-founder and CEO of TouristEye (which was acquired by Lonely Planet in 2013). He has lived in Argentina, Spain, San Francisco, Boston, Vietnam, Indonesia, and El Salvador and is currently based in Barcelona with his wife and chocolate lab, Luna.

Book Recommendations;

The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, by Erin Meyer

The GitLab team handbook

Jeff is the Director of Technical Services at Badu Networks, a company dedicated to improving the way the world connects. Jeff considers himself fluent in sales speak and techno-babble, and he uses that ability to bridge the gap between sales and engineering.

One of our original white papers on our WarpEngine technology:

Badu_WarpTCP_White_Paper.pdf

10 reasons your network needs WarpEngine

Case study for a manufacturing company that installed WarpEngine:

case-studies/Infac.pdf

Oscar is co-founder of Nyckel: the lightning-fast ML platform for everyone. He is also the Senior Director of Machine Learning at Motional, where he works on ML products, research, platform for their fleet of autonomous vehicles. Before that, he was a postdoctoral scholar in Trevor Darrell's lab at Berkeley AI Research, where he worked on automated quantification of scientific image data using deep learning.

Previously, he was the lead developer at Hövding, where he created the algorithmic framework and hardware design for their invisible bicycle helmet. He has also worked on automated dietary logging systems for consumer applications and focusing algorithms for image-based cell analysis.

Oscar also manages and develops CoralNet, deploying deep convolutional neural networks to help coral reef ecologists mine image data.

Oscar got his Ph.D. in computer vision and machine learning at UCSD under David Kriegman and Serge Belongie, and his M.S. in engineering physics at Lund University under Kalle Åström.

Book Recommendation;

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship By, Robert C. Martin.