The INDUStry Show

Enrico Palmerino is the founder, CEO of Botkeeper - an automated accounting platform that has raised $50M, and serves 1000s of customers globally. Enrico was #2 on Forbes 25 under 25 and took his first startup from the dorm to #46 on Inc. 500. He is on Fidelity Bank's board and widely recognized amongst the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting.

Enrico Palmerino "Our platform gives accountants 70-90% of their time back, increases their efficiency from 85-95% to 99.97%, and the speed of processing down from monthly to daily and maybe by the minute. With this additional time, they can acquire new business or do work that is more meaningful to them such as advisory, consulting, and analytical work."

Nitin Pachisia is a founding partner of Unshackled Ventures, an early-stage fund he conceived to help US immigrant founders succeed faster. He has invested in 50+ startups across industries. Previously, he built an experiential e-commerce startup, and ran finance and strategy for ed-tech startup Kno (acquired by Intel) that raised over $90M.

Nitin Pachisia "At Unshackled Ventures we invest in immigrants. Having built companies on visas ourselves, we knew there were no resources or a support structure specifically for US immigrants. We don't just have to figure out the complex immigration issues but also how we become a part of the mainstream ecosystem here. We saw that as an opportunity to solve an inefficiency in the system and started Unshackled Ventures."

Ganesh Shankar is the CEO and co-founder of RFPIO - a cloud-based RFP response management system. Most recently Ganesh was recognized as one of the top CEOs for diversity and women by popular employer review site Comparably. Ganesh was also listed as a 40 Under 40 leader by Portland Business Journal.

Ganesh Shankar "As a feet on the ground and helping other sales professionals on our teams, my co-founders and I found it inefficient, even frustrating to respond to similar questions and provide the same documents week after week as we responded to RFP's. We looked for a product that could help us and found the space was pretty wide open. That's how RFPIO was born and today we have 900+ global customers and over 100,000 users, growing rapidly."

Rob Chesnut is the former Chief Ethics Officer and General Counsel of Airbnb. He previously led eBay’s North America legal team. He was also the general counsel at Chegg, Inc., and served with the U.S. Justice Department for 14 years. Rob is the author of Intentional Integrity: How Smart Companies Can Lead an Ethical Revolution (St Martin’s Press, 2020).

Rob Chesnut "I'm a big fan of learning from other people's mistakes when I can. I fell in love with the concept of companies being intentional about their integrity and decided to write a book about it."

Manu Bhagatjee is the founder, CEO of HouseStay - a curated platform of fully-furnished turnkey rentals for digital nomads, global mobility, and relocation professionals. Prior to HouseStay, Manu was in the corporate finance industry. Manu has an MBA from the Simon School of Business at University of Rochester.

Rashi Bahri Chitnis is the founder, CEO of Shoonya Digital - a startup focusing on teaching language and cultural diversity to children. Prior to Shoonya, Rashi worked in the entertainment industry, in Hollywood and in India. Some of her clients include ABC Studios, Discovery, Lifetime Television, and Warner Bros Studios.

Rashi Bahri "Everyone is talking about Diversity today. The most impressionable age for a human is when we are children. What influences do we have, what kind of games are we playing, what dolls do we own? Before we teach culture, there first needs to be a happy association with cultural representation and that's what we focus on."

Rupak Doshi is co-founder, CEO of OmniSync Inc., that helps startups and SMB's get non-dilutive funding from Government and private sources through grants, contracts, and loans. Prior to OmniSync, Rupak was a research scientist at Scripps Research Institute and InhibRx, Inc. Rupak is an alum of University of Cambridge, University of Manchester, UC San Diego, and Vellore Institute of Technology.

Rupak Doshi "There are upwards of 500k startups in the US. Less than 1-2% of these will be successful in getting any investor money. A staggering 95% of these startups are unable to fund the production of the inventions they have conceived even though there's almost $4Bn in non-dilutive funding available from the Government each year to fund this sort of work."

Dan O'Day is the co-founder and CEO of ECFX, a one-stop solution for a law firms' Electronic Court Filing (ECF) needs. Prior to ECFX, Dan was the VP of Sales at American LegalNet. Dan was the VP of Operations at Thomson Reuters and also led Product Management and Development. Dan is an alum of Pepperdine University.

We're the most litigious country in the world followed by Australia. The court system is a pretty vulcanized chaotic labyrinth. Each County and each State is a different system and if you practice in more than one jurisdiction, it can get tedious pretty quickly. ECFx exists to provide a single, simple, consistent interface so you can focus on the case and your clients.

Charles Owen "We have made 3 investments so far. First in an EV manufacturer that had 3 vehicles on the road when we invested in them, now have 180 with an order for 1,000. The second is a logistics technology supply chain focusing on Oil & Gas, and the third is a last-mile logistics play for large parcels for Flipkart, Amazon, etc."

Charles Owen is Partner at Ev2 Ventures, an international venture capital firm with a presence in India and in the US. Ev2 has an early-stage fund for Smart Mobility with a special focus on Micro-Mobility, Smart Logistics, Sharing Economy, and Electric Vehicle ecosystems. Prior to Ev2, Charles was the VP of Mergers & Acquisitions at Harman International. He is an alum of Wharton School of Business, and Georgetown Law.

Barbara McAfee "Your voice says a lot about you. Based on the tone and expression, your listeners make up their minds about you before they even process the meaning of your words. And if what you say is at odds with how you say it, they will miss your message altogether. As important as our voices are, few of us know how to use them to their full potential."

Barbara McAfee is a master voice coach, author, speaker, and singer/songwriter who merges lessons from 12 years in organization development with the transformative power of sound. Her book, Full Voice, is based on her decades supporting people from many professions to find their voice, whatever that means to them. She lives in Minneapolis, MN