Re:Design/Growth

Darren Hood has almost 3 decades of experience in design operations, streamlining processes, and improving UX maturity levels for several organizations, including the Fortune 50, through usability and heuristics, UX research, information architecture, interaction design, and interface design principles.

He currently serves as an adjunct professor for Kent State's UX Design Master's program, Brandeis, UCLA, Michigan State, and Lawrence Technological University. He is also a Senior Staff UX Designer at BD.

Darren is the host for The World of UX podcast on CX of M radio via Michigan State University, and served as an author for "97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know" (O'Reilly).

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Tim Rotolo

Raahul Srinivasan is the Group Product Manager for the Platform AI division at ServiceNow, a cloud-based platform that helps digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow.

Raahul has over a decade of experience in product management and product analysis, with a demonstrated history of success in the tech & health-tech industries. For the past 3 years, he has been working on AI-based products for enterprises.

A graduate of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, he has a strong product sense, an entrepreneurial drive, and a desire to impact the lives of as many people as possible in a positive manner.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Ritvij Gautam & Tim Rotolo

Julie Kim is a product lead at Typeform, driving integrations & platform strategy encompassing 10+ strategic integrations and 7500+ developer apps. Before Typeform, Julie served product roles at IBM and RingCentral for CRM & marketing platforms.

Julie is a graduate of Cornell University.Julie is a data-driven, empathetic, and passionate leader. She brings others along through open dialogue and a shared understanding of goals to create a unified product vision and strategy. She brings expertise in B2B SaaS, user research, data strategy, platform and ecosystems.

In her free time, she likes to salsa dance, go to music festivals, and wind down with yoga.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Ritvij Gautam & Shruti Goli

Vivek Bhaskaran is the founder and CEO of QuestionPro, a leading global provider of online research, surveying, and feedback solutions.

Since founding QuestionPro in 2005, he has grown the company into a multi-million dollar, multi-continent-spanning operation, with offices in the US, India, Mexico, Germany, and the UK. He has continuously employed new technology and innovative strategies to maintain QuestionPro's success and leadership in the market research industry.

Vivek is also on the board of several other tech companies in the market research & user research space, including Trymata.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Tim Rotolo

Bailey Farren is the CEO & co-founder of Perimeter, a platform for disaster response agencies to coordinate in real-time during emergencies.

The daughter of 2 first responders, Bailey strives to empower citizens and public safety agencies with the tools & information needed to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unprecedented disasters of our times.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Shruti Goli

Amélie-Sophie Vavrovsky is the founder and CEO of Formally, a legal tech startup focused on increasing access to justice through intelligent technology and accessible design.

Amélie is on a mission to build the future of legal technology. A policy maker by training, she is passionate about using technology to solve hard challenges around access to justice. She serves as an advisor and researcher around topics of legal technology, cybersecurity and digital rights.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Shruti Goli

Darby Sieben is a digital media & technology professional with over 25 years of experience, with a focus on digital marketing (SMB and national), product development, and transformation management.

Darby is an impact leader who was critical in helping transform one of Canada's largest media companies (Yellow Pages Group) from traditional print to a digital powerhouse by focusing on product innovation, strategic business development deals that elevated YP’s digital presence across Canada and globally, and leading the business side of strategic M&A activity.

Currently the Chief Product Officer for Unbounce, Darby leads engineering, product management, product marketing, UX/design and business development, with a focus on using ML/AI throughout Unbounce's product features to help marketers create and optimize their marketing efforts.

Prior to Unbounce, Darby was the co-founder and head of RBC Ampli Inc., a Royal Bank of Canada Ventures business, leading it from ideation to public launch and scale. He built Ampli into one of Canada’s leading cashback mobile apps, and started the integration of Ampli into RBC’s Avion Rewards program.

An active investor and mentor in a number of start-ups as well as an LP for a number of early-stage focused funds, Darby adds value through advice on strategic business deals, product development, team management and growth.

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Episode hosted by Trymata co-founders Rit Gautam & Tim Rotolo