Welcome to the Women in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Isabela Fernandes Executive Director of The TOR Project. She joined in 2015 as a Project Manager and has led teams into collaborative strategy building and road mapping to an unprecedented level in the organisation. She leads the UX team and implementation of some of the critical improvements to the platform as the Executive Director.

We kick off by asking Isabela to share with us her journey and what has led her to where she is today.

Then we ask Isabela to share more about what TOR Project is and what they do.

Then we ask Isabela how they balance those who want to be anonymous versus law enforcement and what kind of scenarios can she share on this.

Next, we ask Isabela, does the TOR Project give people their own version of the internet.

Then we ask Isabela how is the TOR Project funded.

Next, we ask Isabela, in terms of women in tech, what has been her experience as a female leader in technology.

Then we ask Isabela what advice would she give younger women that want to enter the tech world.

Lastly, we ask Isabela what is a tool she can't live without.

Welcome to the Women in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Elizabeth Olson, Director of Marketing Communications at Telltale Games. She is also an entrepreneur and consultant in brand and strategic marketing in her own right. She is known for creative campaigns. She loves giving a product or brand a face and personality and determining and positioning the audience's strategic direction.

We kick off by asking Elizabeth to share her career journey and what has led her to where she is today.

Then next we ask Elizabeth how her experience in gaming shaped her marketing strategy. And we ask her what was it like with little to no women in gaming tech at the time.

Next, we ask Elizabeth to share her thoughts on the addictive side of games for kids and the pressure on parents about it.

Then we ask Elizabeth what advice would give other women that want to enter the gaming industry.

Welcome to the Women in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Gina Riley Career Transition Coach & CareerVelocity System Creator at Gina Riley Consulting.

We kick off by asking Gina to share her journey and what has led her to where she is today.

Then we ask Gina how can we get better at reading the room.

Next, we ask Gina, what should we be doing to better promote ourselves and we ask her to share her thought on imposter syndrome.

Then we ask Gina, why is it tougher for women to get into leadership positions.

Then we ask Gina, what gadget or tool she can’t live without.

Welcome to the Women in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Erica Jenkins who is the Chief Product Officer at Crayon. She is a very passionate B2B leader accelerating product management processes to reach the highest possible revenue and leading successful acquisitions throughout the course of her career. She thrives in the $10-100M growth trajectory organisation and helps other product managers on her team grow. She is a very big believer that successful companies are product led when sales and onboarding customer success are in place. She has scaled businesses from 10 to 300 people and various companies, she comes from real estate and has grown from startups that have been bootstrapped right through to well-funded and IPO-led organisations.

We kick off the conversation by asking Erica to share her story and what has led her to where she is today.

We ask Erica if would she clarify the solutions we create in tech today to solve real problems.

Then we ask Erica to share more about Crayon and what they are doing to solve problems.

We ask Erica what is her single most important line of truth from a data perspective.

Then we ask Erica if she has dabbled with the product-led growth phenomenon.

Next, we ask Erica why she feels not many women are Chief Product Officers and what advice would she give women.

Then we ask Erica how would she describe her leadership style and what advice would she give to growing leaders.

Next, we ask Erica if she has any tips that she can't live without that keep her on track.

Welcome to the Women in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Kelly Griswold, CEO at Onna. Kelly was originally appointed as Chief Operating Officer back in October 2020. Having originally joined the company as Chief Strategy Officer. She oversees sales, customer success, partnerships, finance, marketing, and the people team. Her focus is on the day-to-day operations of the company. She has a strong track record of partnership and deals origination, negotiation and execution experience in the United States and in International markets. This includes M&A execution experience with a top-tier investment bank and in the renewable energy space. She has a deep understanding of financial structuring and growth strategies in energy and financial services.

We kick off by asking Kelly to share her career journey so far and what has led her to where she is today.

We ask Kelly how has she utilised her sports industry experience and applied it in business.

Then we ask Kelly what are things she can and can't coach, and what she looks for in an interview.

Next, we ask Kelly what could we be doing better when it comes to hiring and the image of hiring.

Then we asked Kelly to share some of her challenges faced as a women.

In terms of people she works with, we ask Kelly what role can they play in supporting women in tech.

Next, we asked Kelly to share more about Onna and what they do that is so exciting.

Then we ask Kelly what the future looks like for Onna.

We dive into asking Kelly how she stays organised and if there is a gadget or tool she can't live without.

Welcome to the Women in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Christine Spang who is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Nylas. She has had an illustrious career in the corporate world and comes from a development background, she attended MIT and grew out from there creating products.

We kick off by asking Christine what drove her to get into becoming a developer, its underserved by women, and what sparked her interest to choose this journey.

We then ask Christine, why she thinks there is such a gap in developers in today's society with our demands and which subjects would she advise those who feel a fit for this.

Next, we ask Christine if she has experienced bias in her career and if so, what is the one thing she would change?

We asked Christine to share a positive experience from her career so far.

We asked Christine to tell us more about Nylas and what they do and what is the purpose.

Then we ask Christine, what kind of questions does she ask to prioritize tech projects?

Regarding the 4-degree aspect spoke about earlier, how do we shift the bias and how do you deal with someone who takes a 1-year course?

Lastly, we ask Christine how does she manage her time?

Welcome to the Women in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Janelle Raney, the Chief Marketing Officer at Pathlight. She has had an illustrious career in organisations like Citrix and Zoom and is now at Pathlight as a CMO. She worked in product marketing, analytics, market strategy, positioning, and launching PR. She has a degree in Mathematics and an MBA from NYU.

We kick off by asking Janelle to share her career journey and what has led her to where she is today.

We then ask Janelle why she decided to go to San Francisco instead of the Wall Street trend after NYU.

We ask Janelle what she feels they got right from a cultural perspective at Zoom.

Then we ask Janelle, regarding the women in tech, what she feels has changed around inclusion.

Next, we ask Janelle, what can we do as leaders to progress and promote the inclusion of genders?

We move on to asking Janelle, what advice she would give to young women wanting to get into tech.

Next, we ask Janelle how important is it for men to be a support system for women.

Then we ask Janelle to share more on dyslexic thinking as we see it on her profile.

We then ask Janelle to share more about Pathlight and what are they doing.

Welcome to the Women in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Melissa Cheong who is a Managing Partner at Blackhorn Ventures. They invest in entrepreneurs who are improving resource efficiency with science and engineering-based market solutions. She is very passionate about opportunities to use the market to drive scalable, social and environmental impact and believes that together technology and entrepreneurship have deep potential to transform markets and the way that we do business today. She has helped to build and grow organisational platforms allowing them to thoughtfully and efficiently deploy capital at scale. She has worked in various finance and investment roles with organisations such as Zoma Capital, Imprint Capital, Treehouse Investments and so much more.

We kick off our episode by asking Melissa to share her journey and what has led her to where she is today.

We ask Melissa how their diversity policy has impacted their organisation.

Next, we ask Melissa how they find that level of nurturing and how that impacts their profile companies.

Then we ask Melissa, about female-led businesses, and what could be done to connect them to private equity firms.

We ask Melissa who or what has been her influence.

Lastly, we ask Melissa if she has a gadget that helps her stay organised.

On today's show we have David Farquhar, CEO at Intelligent Growth Solutions, he is a transaction-oriented serial entrepreneur with a track record of delivering shareholder value, currently leading the rapid global growth of vertical farm manufacturer Intelligent Growth Solutions. Prior to this he had retired, following the turnaround, transformation, growth and exit of global enterprise SaaS vendor Workplace. He has started 20 companies, sold 13 and has the hard-won experience of having lost three.

Where he learnt the best business lessons. We think it's safe to say that David has written a book on growth and more importantly culture.

We kick off by asking David to share his career journey and what has brought him to where he is today:

Next we ask David, what are the tools he uses to size someone up, what's on his clipboard when he is inspecting the team?

Then we ask David about how he shows up for people and as a leader, does he show up the same way at home and at work?

On today's show and as part of our special 10 Episode CRO Series we will be discussing topics like: Cx, GTM, Functional Alignment, Metrics that Matter, Pipeline / Forecasting, Digital Strategies, Digital Transformation, RevOps and today it's all about Org Structure, Alignment and Metrics that Matter. Again, we promise to give you actionable insights from our guests who are tenured and experienced CRO’s who come from high growth SaaS companies.

Today we welcome Jary Carter, he has had an interesting career in Novell, Omniture, Alfresco, Magento, Oro and now is the CRO at Wordpress VIP.

We kick off by asking Jary, what is it like to be CRO, we ask him to share his career journey and what has led him to where he is today?

We ask Jary, how he feels about the passion for technology as a sales guy, how important is it?

We touch on the CRO role and ask Jary what excited him about it?

Then we ask Jary, at Wordpress, what is his typical customer and how are you servicing them?

We ask Jary, what is a typical day for him and how does he spend his time at Wordpress VIP?

Then we ask Jary, what are the metrics that he looks at?

Last but not least, we ask Jary what he feels is his super power?