Leaders in Tech and Ecommerce

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May 18, 2022#65: Johnny Slattery, Chief Executive Officer of SCNX
Johnny Slattery is the Chief Executive Officer at SCNX.
He is a seasoned technologist and has been building software for 20+ years. Verticals of focus include derivatives trading, management consulting and logistics. Johnny has rich experience building and running companies and maintains a passion for developing novel technical solutions that solve real problems.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
Becoming the CEO of SCNX
SCNX’s portfolio and services
Deploying technology using IoT and machine learning
Culture and skills needed within supply chain tech industry
Advices to young graduates and interns that will enter corporate world
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33 min
May 04, 2022#64: Jamil Khan, President & Amanda Cole, Co-Founder and CEO of Sayurbox
About Jamil Khan:
Jamil Khan is the President of Sayurbox. Jamil is an International Logistics Leader, bringing almost 30 years of Operational & Supply Chain experience, having lived in 6 and worked in 11 countries across Europe & Asia. He is an experienced senior leader, with a great career as EVP of Logistics at Lazada, and VP of Operations of Redmart, Jamil has also worked in Tesco, METRO Group and Dairy Farm International, in a variety of roles and locations.
He is the driver of a culture that is Customer centric and focussed on quality. Jamil believes in finding talent, building capability through coaching and training to create extraordinary teams at all levels. Jamil has built operational capacity and resilience and has scaled massively in a cost effective way.
About Amanda Cole:
Amanda Susanti Cole is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sayurbox.
Amanda has spent most of her career in agriculture and distribution. Graduating from Manchester university, she headed the supply chain and operations of her family’s distribution company before finding her passion in agriculture. She started and built a farm as well as closely working with farmers to supply high end restaurant. Seeing the inefficiencies in the fresh produce supply chain, she co-founded Sayurbox as a means to distribute fresh produce directly from farmers to end consumers.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:
Sayurbox origin story
How Sayurbox is building relationships with the farmers
Upsides and challenges that Sayurbox faced in times of disruption
Sayurbox future plans in the next 5 to 10 years
Managing sustainability and some initiatives
Culture and skills needed within the organization
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45 min
May 02, 2022#63: Lalit Das, Founder & CEO of 3SC
Lalit Das is a Founder and CEO of SS Supply Chain Solutions Pvt Ltd (3SC). He worked in the various segments of the Supply Chain Domain and Manufacturing & Services Sector in Supply Chain Functions.
He founded 3SC in 2012, the firm holds strong expertise in Predictive, Prescriptive and Descriptive analytics combined with collaborative and consultative approach. 3SC orchestrates organizations to streamline the entire supply chain and create value for customers in order to gain competitive advantage.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
Lalit’s career journey and how 3SC started
Forecast accuracy and using machine learning and neural network algorithms
Different products by 3SC and product integration lead time
How 3SC is helping their clients in terms of sustainability
Demand planning and challenges in data forecasting
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50 min
April 26, 2022#62: Jonathan Savoir, CEO & Co-Founder of Quincus
Jonathan Savoir is the CEO and Co-founder of Quincus. Jonathan grew up in Belgium and Luxembourg and attended colleges in London and in the USA. In college, he studied engineering and economics. Upon completing his Master's Degree at 20, he pursued his Ph.D. and decided to drop out at 21 to make some global investments and build startups. In 2014 he founded Quincus with his co-founder.

Quincus Execution and Intelligence platforms allow ground providers, port operators, and airlines to adapt and optimize their operations to efficiently execute their logistics inflows and outflows. Quincus’ platforms and open APIs are fundamentally underpinned by its state-of-the-art artificially intelligent supply chain optimization and geo-mapping to allow for real-time data, visibility, and operation in hypercomplex regions.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:
[01:47] Creation story of Quincus; becoming an operating system for logistics
[05:54] How Quincus is different and focuses on data accuracy
[08:18] Quincus’ product implementation and training
[10:25] Trends seen in the industry with the disruptions happening globally
[13:12] Getting diverse teams to work together
[18:10] What keeps Jonathan up at night and excites him in the morning
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23 min
April 19, 2022#61: Kathleen Chan, Founder and CEO of Calico
Kathleen Chan is the Founder and CEO of Calico, the supply chain OS that powers the $1.4 trillion eCommerce production market from concept to doorstep. Kathleen is a serial founder, previously starting several D2C brands and scaling them from zero to six figures in revenues in the first six months of operations.
Prior to Calico, Kathleen was the youngest professor at Centennial College in Toronto and ran national marketing campaigns at Microsoft.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
Calico’s origin story and how are they different
Serena Williams Venture investing on Calico
Vision of the company in 5 to 10 years
Soft skills and hard skills Calico is looking for
What are the internal challenges Calico is facing
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34 min
March 24, 2022#60: Philipp Ortwein,Co-Founder and Managing Director of InstaFreight
Philipp Ortwein is Co-Founder and Managing Director of InstaFreight, a digital forwarding company. He graduated with a Master in Management from the University of Mannheim and did his executive education at Harvard and Stanford.
During 9 years of work experience at Bain & Company and 2 Startups, he gained expertise in digitization and Industry 4.0.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
InstaFreight’s origin story
How InstaFreight faces challenges in times of disruption
InstaFreight’s future plans
Soft skills and hard skills to be successful at InstaFreight
Maintaining the company culture intact
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46 min
January 07, 2022#59: John Hefter, Senior Vice President & Founder at Thras.io
As a founder of Thrasio, John has been fortunate to witness their original team of 4 grow into a 1000 person, billion-dollar powerhouse. At work and in life, he is a polymath with unrelenting energy and curiosity. He enjoys regularly deploying his expertise in branding, creative, neuroscience marketing, business development, acquisitions, leadership, culture building, and product development across diverse sets of business domains. If there is a challenge met, John will face it openly with creativity, humor, and persistence.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:
Thras.io’s origin story
How the COVID-19 pandemic affected Thras.io’s evaluation process
Using human touch and technology together to analyze businesses
How Thras.io plans to reach the audience
Soft skills and hard skills and building teams
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43 min
October 31, 2021#58: Sandeep Sreekumar, COO & Rolf Knoerzer, CEO of IndustryApps
About Sandeep Sreekumar:
Sandeep Sreekumar is the COO and Co-Founder of IndustryApps. Sandeep has 15 years of digitalization experience. He specializes in Smart Factory, IT/OT Domain, IoT, ML, AI, Plant Engineering, and Process Engineering. Before IndustryApps, he was a Global Head – Digital Factory.
About Rolf Knoerzer:
Rolf Knoerzer is the CEO and Co-Founder of IndustryApps. Rolf has 25 years of building and running businesses. He specializes in Operations & Supply Chain, Smart Factory, Production Systems, Lean, KAIZEN, MTM, REFA. Before IndustryApps, he was a VP Operations & Supply Chain APAC.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
Rolf and Sandeep’s journey in working together and starting a startup
Hurdles on the industry and how they solve it
How IndustryApps helps its clients and how long the onboarding process is
Current manufacturing trends Rolf and Sandeep are seeing
Certain policies around IndustryApps developers
Piece of advice regards shift from a corporate type of job to startup
How different industries respond to digitalization
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49 min
October 22, 2021#57: David Shillingford, Chief Strategy Officer of Everstream Analytics
David Shillingford is the Chief Strategy Officer of Everstream Analytics (formerly Resilience360 and Riskpulse), a leading supply chain risk analytics company that enables greater resilience and agility in the supply chains of many of the world’s best-known companies. David has led the development of several industry-wide data and analytics platforms both as an entrepreneur and as SVP Supply Chain at Verisk Analytics, ranked by Forbes magazine as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. David’s first career was as a special operations officer in the British Army.

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Some of the highlights of the episode:
How Everstream is helping their clients and problems they are solving
Case studies on how they brought significant change to your clients
Challenges and hurdles Everstream went through
Everstream’s sustainability initiatives
What makes Everstream unique in terms of hiring and attracting talent
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18 min
October 13, 2021#56: Evan Smith CEO & Co-Founder of Altana AI
Evan Smith is the CEO and Co-founder of Altana AI. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Yale University. Before Altana AI, Evan led enterprise solution and strategic partnership at Panjiva, a trades data science company.
Before Panjiva, Evan co-managed a private equity partnership and the family office sponsor and served as the CEO of IMDU Technologies, a wholly-owned portfolio company providing textile supply chain automation software.
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Some of the highlights of the episode:
Acquiring and selling Panjiva and founding Altana AI
Taking advantage of the big market opportunities
Piloting projects on the supply chain insurance side
Enabling Globalization 2.0 - challenges and opportunities
How Altana AI is protecting their system from data breaches- data privacy, security, and intellectual property protection
What Altana AI is looking for in terms of talent
What machine learning means to Altana AI
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46 min

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