Future Hacker (English)

Guest: Maria Paula Oliveira (MP) is the Chief Innovation Officer for EY MENA. Under her leadership, EY MENA was awarded “Most Innovative Knowledge Enterprise” in 2019, and MP herself was presented with the “Excellence in Innovation” award by the Women Leadership Awards in the Arab World, in 2020. Additionally, she was recognized as one of the most influential corporate leaders in Singapore, in 2017.  Four times innovation leader and twice an entrepreneur, MP has experience in Latin America, USA, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. MP also worked for Experian, she co-founded two startups in the Silicon Valley and graduated from 500 Startups and Plug & Play acceleration programs. We talk about innovation, transformation, EY Megatrends and much more. To see more content, check our blog www.futurehacker.co ! There you will find the EY Megatrends Report that we mention at this interview, and much more.

Guest: Maria Paula Oliveira (MP) is the Chief Innovation Officer for EY MENA. Under her leadership, EY MENA was awarded “Most Innovative Knowledge Enterprise” in 2019, and MP herself was presented with the “Excellence in Innovation” award by the Women Leadership Awards in the Arab World, in 2020. Additionally, she was recognized as one of the most influential corporate leaders in Singapore, in 2017.  Four times innovation leader and twice an entrepreneur, MP has experience in Latin America, USA, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East. MP also worked for Experian, she co-founded two startups in the Silicon Valley and graduated from 500 Startups and Plug & Play acceleration programs. We talk about innovation, transformation, EY Megatrends and much more. To see more content, check our blog www.futurehacker.co! There you will find the EY Megatrends Report that we mention at this interview, and much more. 

Guest: Denis Chamas. Denis has been leading Global Digital Transformation teams for over a decade in companies like Unilever and Cisco and renowned agencies like F.biz and Wunderman. Today, he is responsible for the Innovation & Transformation front at Philip Morris. He owns a Master’s degree in Digital Design and Intelligence Technologies, studied Radical Innovation at MIT and became a Certified Futurist and Specialist in Strategic Foresight at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley. He also works as a Professor at the Miami Ad School and leads the Startup Rad Lab, focused on technological maturity research and cognition hacking. We discuss everything about innovation & transformation: the corporate world x the startups, the challenges, ESG, data, Techonomic war, Synthetic Media and more.

Guest: Erica Culpepper. Erica is the General Manager of L’Oreal Multi-Cultural Beauty, and oversees the US and Global business unit for a dynamic portfolio of brands which celebrates, inspires and empowers women of color. Erica also led the acquisition and integration of Carol’s Daughter, bringing the natural hair pioneer into the L’Oreal family, and helping to expand L’Oreal’s leadership within the multi-cultural market. She is an avid champion of women’s empowerment thru building self-confidence, and developing products that allow every woman to embrace and celebrate her own unique beauty. Erica serves on the L’Oreal USA Executive Committee, an Advisory Board Member for the L’Oreal USA Women of Color Think Tank, a member of the Executive Leadership Council, as well as a board member for Cosmetic Executive Women and BUILD NYC. She has been honored for her leadership in beauty with CEW Achiever Award, Top 25 Black Women in Beauty by The Network Journal, and a Global Visionary Leadership Award from her alma mater, Howard University School of Communications. This episode is all about the beauty sector: its trends, challenges, the importance of embracing diversity, sustainability and what the future should bring us.

Guest: Jairo Blumenthal. Jairo is a prosthetist and orthetist, and he is the very first Brazilian graduate in O & P here in the USA. After returning to Brazil, Jairo served as Clinical and Prosthetic Director responsible for Correct Clinical Prostheses and Orthoses, in Porto Alegre, for over 20 years. Also, during this period Jairo worked in several positions with Ossur, a world leader in components for high-tech prostheses, both in Europe and in Latin America. His last position at the company was Vice President Commercial & Marketing for the entire Latin American continent. Jairo lectured and taught courses in more than 30 countries, being an active member of the American Academy of Prosthodontists and Orthotists and the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics. Passionate about everything he does, he decided to join the Da Vinci Clinic (www.davinciclinic.com.br) project and he tell us more about it during this podcast.

Guest: Jairo Blumenthal. Jairo is a prosthetist and orthetist, and he is the very first Brazilian graduate in O & P in the USA. After returning to Brazil, Jairo served as Clinical and Prosthetic Director responsible for Correct Clinical Prostheses and Orthoses, in Porto Alegre, for over 20 years. Also, during this period Jairo worked in several positions with Ossur, a world leader in components for high-tech prostheses, both in Europe and in Latin America. His last position at the company was Vice President Commercial & Marketing for the entire Latin American continent. Jairo lectured and taught courses in more than 30 countries, being an active member of the American Academy of Prosthodontists and Orthotists and the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics. Passionate about everything he does, he decided to join the Da Vinci Clinic (www.davinciclinic.com.br) project and he tell us more about it during this podcast.

Guest: Francisco Santolo. Francisco is the CEO & Founder of Scalabl, a Global Company Builder, Consultancy & Entrepreneurship Academy. He was named the Startup Hacker by Forbes, and a finalist for AMBA Entrepreneur of the Year in 2021. He’s a serial Entrepreneur, Consultant, Trainer, MBA Professor, Influencer & Speaker. He challenges the business models and the race for VC investments for entrepreneurs. We discuss the future of building your businesses, how to work in collaboration, and how technologies can play a part in that.

Guest: Francisco Santolo. Francisco is the CEO & Founder of Scalabl, a Global Company Builder, Consultancy & Entrepreneurship Academy. He was named the Startup Hacker by Forbes, and a finalist for AMBA Entrepreneur of the Year in 2021. He’s a serial Entrepreneur, Consultant, Trainer, MBA Professor, Influencer & Speaker. He challenges the business models and the race for VC investments for entrepreneurs. We discuss the future of building your businesses, how to work in collaboration, and how technologies can play a part in that.

Guest: Anita Tandon. Anita is the founder of Blink Advisory, which works with early stage start-ups and incubated ventures to architect their go-to -market and growth strategy - helping them to clear their vision and get a running start. Anita has over 15 years of experience driving marketing teams, including launching Brandless and heading up D2C marketing at Education First, as well as a variety of previous roles with Google and Stitch Fix. She is also a member of the Sesame Workshop Leadership Council, the non-profit behind Sesame Street & educational resources that reach over 150M children worldwide. In this episode, Anita gives us a great recap about the evolution of marketing, discusses current debates like data privacy and customer relationship, and talks about technologies, the skills needed for the future marketing leaders and the trends in the sector.

Guest: Peter Cabral. Peter is an expert from SingularityU Brazil. He’s a political scientist specialized in economics, business management and computer science / programming, with a postgraduate degree in marketing. He’s also a specialist in Urban Mobility, Smart Cities, Infrastructure PPPs and government relations and world pioneer in Shared Economy and Gig Economy Solutions. We talk about the concept of Meta enlightenment, Smart Cities, the future of governments, space mining, space governance and much more.