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Ankit has over 20 years of experience in software engineering and product development. In 2010, he built one of the first Health Information Exchanges (HIE) in the State of Virginia to connect physicians, hospitals, and federal agencies through one HIE platform.

In 2016, Ankit co-founded Roundtrip, a digital healthcare transportation marketplace working with leading healthcare organizations across the country to remove transportation as a barrier to care. As CTO and CPO, he led both Product and Engineering initiatives building and scaling a team and product from idea to product-market fit. 

Ankit received his Executive MBA in 2012 and Executive Masters in IT Management in 2013 from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2019, he was recognized as Richmond’s Founder of the Year and received recognition as Top 40 Under 40 in 2020.

When he's not being customer-focused and helping grow revenues, you can find him hanging out with his two dogs, hiking, cooking, and making delicious cocktails.

With a passion for the ways in which technologists build solutions for people, Chris helps Terazo's clients find strategic success with their digital initiatives.

Having worked in the IT industry for 20+ years, he recently helped launch the first public API platform for a North American bank and previously built a digital agency that provided API integration & data services for its Fortune 500 clients.

In this episode, our Co-Hosts, Julia Barnhart and Ford Prior, sat down with three technologists in the Richmond area to discuss the current trends in technology. This panel includes Andrea Goulet, Scott Ford, and Greg Patrick. 

Martin “Marty” Rodgers is Accenture’s market unit lead for the US South as well as the office managing director for the Washington, D.C. Metro Area, the company’s largest office in North America. Leading more than 17,000 people in the South Market Unit spanning 15 states, he is responsible for clients, offices, community involvement, and financial performance for the market unit. He is also a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee and the North America Leadership Team. 

Brandon is an Enterprise Architect at CarMax, focusing on their software platforms that drive innovation. He is passionate about helping teams create amazing customer experiences through cloud architecture, lean software development, and product discovery. He specializes in the principles and practices that make for continuous delivery, and his team builds the tools, APIs, patterns, practices, training, and frameworks to help other teams get there. He loves helping teams achieve speed, quality, and a better culture through living out DevOps principles.

Andrew is a data-driven marketer, speaker, and problem solver. He co-founded Workshop Digital in 2015 and as the VP of Strategy he devotes his time to developing new tools and strategies to help Workshop Digital’s teams and clients achieve their goals. Andrew regularly speaks to marketing and professional audiences with an authentic, passionate message to raise their collective marketing intelligence.

Andrew collects hobbies and devotes his time to his family, competing in triathlons, amateur gardening, and mentoring Richmond youth as a member of the Junior Achievement of Central Virginia board of directors.

Ryan leads the North America practice for Accenture Security. He is responsible for nurturing the talented teams that bring transformative solutions to better defend and protect our clients. He is also accountable for delivering on our commitment to clients for high-quality, innovative delivery to address their most critical issues.

Throughout his entrepreneurial career at Accenture, he has excelled at identifying new areas of opportunity, growth and under-penetrated markets and then driving technology innovation and brand awareness to help our business and our clients reap the benefits. His outcomes have been a result of being able to contribute to and collaborate with many discrete parts of the business – from orchestrating complex sales and framing marketing campaigns to identifying early high value partners and driving joint value propositions to building and leading a high caliber team to outsized results.

Innovative: Since 2010, Ryan has been responsible for Accenture’s research and development efforts in Security. He has led the Lab to outsized results including opening new doors in banking, energy and defense & intelligence, partnering with our most strategic clients to substantially grow our account penetration while harvesting critical intellectual property and building strategic relationships with vendor partners.

Results Driven: Since 2006, Ryan has consistently contributed knowledge, skills, capabilities and credentials to key wins at strategic clients – with a 5 year track record of over $5M/year in personal sales and over $20M in supported sales.

Market Relevant: The thought leadership and research results Ryan has managed drive the core messaging that Accenture's global security practice, CTO and CEO take to market when weighing in on where we are placing our bets in security. Ryan also works closely with Accenture's marketing, media relations and analyst relations teams to increase and improve Accenture's role as a security innovator. 

Tom Illmensee is a product strategist, user experience designer and researcher, startup coach, entrepreneur, music-maker, improviser, truth-seeker, and community organizer based in Richmond, Virginia. Tom is a Principal Product Strategist at Philosophie, a digital innovation studio. Tom is also co-founder and CEO of Orbital Music Park, an inclusive community and creative space for music-makers. 

Omar Ansari is a Senior Software Engineer at SVT Robotics, a startup dedicated to developing a rapid deployment platform for industrial robotics and software. Previously Omar worked as a Lead Software Engineer at CarMax. After working with robots all day he likes to hang out with with his wife, Emma, and two cats, Kisses 1 & Kisses 2. If you want to talk to him, you’ll probably find him at Mekong in Richmond, VA (post-pandemic, of course!).