The Connected Enterprise Podcast

Saied Omar is an AVP, Senior Commercial Credit Underwriter with over 10 years of experience in the banking and finance industry. Throughout his career, Saied has developed a reputation for being a highly analytical and detail-oriented professional with a proven track record of successfully evaluating and approving credit applications.

After completing his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of California – Irvine, Saied began his career as an analyst for a community bank. He quickly moved up the ranks, taking on various roles within the compliance and credit department and eventually becoming a commercial credit underwriter. Over the years, Saied has worked with a diverse range of clients, from small businesses to large corporations, across a variety of industries. 

Throughout his career, Saied has demonstrated a deep understanding of the underwriting process, including financial analysis, risk assessment, and credit decision-making. He is known for his ability to identify potential risks and make sound recommendations based on his analysis. In addition, Saied has developed strong relationships with his clients and colleagues, earning their trust and respect through his professionalism and expertise.

Saied is committed to staying up-to-date with industry trends and best practices. He regularly attends conferences and seminars to expand his knowledge and network with other professionals in the field. In his free time, Saied enjoys being the best husband and father he can be, coaching his kids basketball teams, and being a co-host on The Higher Standard Podcast

Thomas F. McInerney is Executive Director of the Rule of Law for Development Program at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He has taught and advised international organizations, governments, NGOs, and businesses on sustainability and rule of law for 25 years. 

An international lawyer and strategist, he has led numerous innovative initiatives to develop and improve the effectiveness of international law and regulation, advance rule of law, and further global development. 

He holds a BA in philosophy and government from the College of William and Mary, a MA in philosophy from Loyola University Chicago, a JD from DePaul University College of Law, and a PhD in development studies from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

He writes the Treaty Bytes newsletter on Substack and his website is thomasfmcinerney.com.

As an internationally recognized voice and thought leader for Business Innovation and Strategy, Chris Hood brings over 30 years of successful experience developing and implementing new transformation initiatives. He’s a highly efficient creator, host, and executive producer for over four years for Google Cloud's first business podcast, That Digital Show.

I spend my time building workflow solutions for companies that want to see massive improvements in ROI through better use of their data. Throughout my career, I've been lucky enough to work directly with great brands like OpenTable, Travelocity, Sephora, Cirque Du Soleil, Abercrombie & Fitch, and GAP Inc. to manage end-to-end data strategy that scales their omnichannel digital marketing efforts like crazy. I've also successfully built out data teams during hypergrowth and am constantly staying up-to-date with the latest trends in data operations.

I thoroughly enjoy creating algorithms and automated processes with SQL & Python. If you need someone to synthesize some data, develop a great strategy, and then make the tactical execution 10x faster - I can help. When I'm off the clock, you'll find me hiking the trails in Austin, jamming out on the drumset, or playing board games with friends. 

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I always want to meet new people, gain new experiences, and create something amazing. If you're interested in working together or just chatting about data and automation, email me at [email protected]!

Chuck Wachendorfer is President of Distribution at think2perform and executive coach. Chuck is tasked with diversifying distribution channels for the company’s products and services in this capacity. 

In servicing clients, Chuck provides executives and business owners who want to achieve top performance without sacrificing balance. He coaches on mission and vision development, leadership engagement, accelerated growth and improved profitability. 

As a result, he has developed leaders, high achievers, and cohesive teams to increase engagement and make a positive difference while building and enhancing market share, increasing client and employee retention, and improving the corporate bottom line.

Dan Straw is Director, HCM (Human Capital Management) Solutions of Vision33.

At Vision33, we are all about disrupting the ways businesses operate through the power of technology. We believe that people are an organisations most valuable asset and as such, they deserve leading technology that allows them to focus on what matters most; getting things done.

Established in 2020, Vision33's HCM Solutions team was created to bring together nearly 20 years of HR and HR technology experience and over 20 years of working with small and medium businesses to deliver technology change. Together, the founding parties have a vision to be the leading technology partner for small and medium businesses through providing best-in-class technology, support services and consultancy to drive business value and return on investment.

Product Tranquility is a consulting firm founded in Austin, TX, led by Dan Balcauski. As the principal consultant for Product Tranquility, Dan helps high-volume B2B SaaS CEOs define pricing and packaging for new products. He is a TopTal certified Top 3% Product Management Professional and helps teach the Kellogg Executive Education course on Product Strategy.

Experience

Over the last 15 years, Dan has managed multiple products throughout the product life-cycle from new concept incubation, product launch, product maintenance, platform transitions, and end of life. Dan has worked in both consumer and B2B companies, across consumer internet, mobile, IT software, and test and measurement hardware and software in addition to company sizes ranging from startups to publicly traded multi-national enterprises.

Prior to founding Product Tranquility, Dan completed a solo round-the-world expedition to 21 countries, a lifelong dream that involved several life-changing volunteering experiences and a new collection of friends and good stories. Prior to that, he was Head of Product at LawnStarter, a two-sided marketplace bringing the best lawn care professionals to customers across the US. He joined LawnStarter after SolarWinds’ $4B acquisition by Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo. At SolarWinds, he was a Principal Product Strategist where he helped form and execute product growth strategies across new and existing products, both on-premises and SaaS-based.

Dan has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Jonathan Chin is an experienced executive in product, strategy, and growth with a demonstrated history of working in FinTech, big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science. He’s the co-founder of Facteus, the largest provider of alternative data worldwide. Jonathan and Facteus are on a mission to democratize data insights by safely unlocking valuable data sets and increasing data literacy through technology. Jonathan holds a bachelor of arts degree in business economics and accounting from UC Santa Barbara.

With more than 20 years of recruiting experience, Vacare Group CEO and founder Nancy Drees was awarded the Smart CEO award from Brava in 2016 and was also recognized as one of the leading recruitment professionals in the Greater Boston area, consistently topping LinkedIn’s Recruiting List since 2015. She has assisted with the growth of many start-ups resulting in many of her clients winning prestigious technology industry awards (Best Places to Work, NEVY awards, Bostinno Tech Madness, 50 on Fire, and many others).

Matt Sitter is an experienced Project Manager at McChrystal Group, and has led two client engagements with global technology companies. In his role as manager of client engagements, Matt has advised senior leadership to improve internal communications and build organizational alignment.

Matt joined McChrystal Group following a successful career in the healthcare industry, serving in management positions in multiple functional areas. Matt worked as the Product Marketing Manager for Elekta AB, the Director of Disease Management for Celera, Inc., and the Director of Reimbursement Analytics for Veracyte. In each of these positions, Matt utilized and personally developed new methodology, metrics, and analytics – demonstrating his innovative approach to project management.

Matt completed his undergraduate studies at Brown University and received his MBA from Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business.