The Nexus IT TechBeat Podcast with Founder/CEO, Earl Foote

Garrett Clark, Executive Director of Silicon Slopes has enjoyed interacting with the local startup community and feels lucky when he gets to help tell their story. He enjoys talking to entrepreneurs doing extraordinary things.

John Bowers has extensive experience as a founder and operator in various businesses throughout his career. He has encountered and overcome a vast array of challenges that confront today’s entrepreneurs and their businesses/teams, and currently serves as the CBO & Partnerships Director at Silicon Slopes where he focuses on building supportive programs and resources for Utah’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Join us as we deep dive into Silicon Slopes and SSS22 on next week’s Techbeat podcast.

Topics discussed during this segment:
•Challenges as a non-profit
•Entrepreneurs, Funder, and Community Partner
•How to add value year over year
•Silicon Slopes Summit

The Nexus IT team has been serving clients for 24 years now, and is committed to always improving the work we do. We’re proud to have undertaken a number of new development initiatives and expansion projects this year, all of which CEO Earl Foote highlighted in his recent installment of the SLC Chamber’s Speaking on Business:

If you are curious about how the merger between Nexus IT and Intelitechs came about, you will not want to miss this segment of TechBeat. Join Earl Foote, Jake Hiller, and Eric Sessions as we take a deep dive into why we decided to join forces, Intelitechs history, and future plans for Nexus IT.

Jake Hiller is a founding owner of INTELITECHS. He has a BS in Information Systems, a BS in Entrepreneurship, and an MS in Information Systems, all from the University of Utah. After gaining the experience, he and his business partner, Eric Sessions moved on to start their own MSP, INTELITECHS. His career began as a mail-room worker until he transferred to the IT Department and discovered his interest in technology.

Partnering with Jake, Eric Sessions is another INTELITECHS founders, his current role is President & COO. His background as an entrepreneur started at an early age spending time in his parents’ hardware store and motel in Rural Idaho. He always had an interest in technology and looked for any opportunity to learn new things. While in the process of creating the INTELITECHS, the desire to do things better is what drove the passion to create a full-service MSP that it is today.

The vision behind @JUMP came from dreamer and doer, @James Jensen. Jensen loves harnessing the latest technology to create life-changing moments. He also loves offering people the experience of flying without the usual money, time, and risk of death BASE jumping requires.
James Jensen is an entrepreneur committed to solving problems related to how people interact and engage with each other daily. He was one of those kids who would take everything apart to see how it works. Now he creates experiences that utilize VR to transport people to another place. Jensen is always at the forefront of technology.

Tune in next Thursday, August 11th, 11:00am MT as we discuss how to harness the latest technology to create life-changing moments and unlock your full potential.

Bassam Salem started his entrepreneurial journey by founding startup consultancy Mindshare Ventures followed in early 2016 with the founding of AtlasRTX, the first company incubated within the Mindshare Ventures framework.

The company now supports some of the world's most successful enterprises, from seven of the top-20 homebuilders in the United States to tech companies such as HPE and Instructure to some of the world’s most prominent higher education institutions including Purdue University and Vanderbilt University.

Topics discussed:
-The Importance of DEI
-Workplace and Community Diversity
-How it Enriches Organizations, Community, and Life!

Join Gezel Nehmadi and Earl Foote to learn how iAllo is setting the pace for the future of customer service.

Gezel Nehmadi, Founder and CEO of iAllo. Product, UX /UI designer with more than a decade of experience with Saas products. Gezel is one of the most visionary, talented, hard-working, and passionate Founders that I have met in a long time.

Topics discussed in this segment:
• Being a FEMALE founder
• What it is like being a first-time founder and navigating through it.
• Knowing your mindset
• What iAllo is all about

Along with many accolades, Scott Paul, founder of Cryptopia and Giddy .co is an angel investor with investments in Gabb Wireless, Neighbor, Volley, and JUMP. An active #cryptocurrency enthusiast, he is currently experimenting with alternative methods of fundraising through his YouTube channel - Life With Scott.
 
Tune in to learn more about these topics:

- NFT
- Crypto
- How Utah is playing a role
- Cryptopia – May 26th
- Web3 startups
- Investing and backing

Garrett Openshaw, Founder of Muunifi, has spent a lot of his time and career overseas. Working in TV and media production in China. Garrett and his family moved back to the states in 2013 where he worked in the family business, which later sold in 2020. Then came along the birth of Muunifi, set to launch next month.

Join Garrett Openshaw and Earl Foote to learn more about coming together as a community.

Topics discussed in this segment:
- What is a community?
- What are the forms of value/compensation in community?
- How is value attributed in community? 
-What are the benefits of being involved in a finance/investment community for the average person? 

As our world evolves and becomes more inclusive, the need for business and community alike to understand and implement robust diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives is greater than ever before.

Not only is supporting the basic civil rights of others the right thing to do morally, it is also a huge competitive advantage in the economic development of communities and workplaces.

We are honored and excited to welcome to TechBeat our friends and some of our most prominent local champions for inclusivity in Utah - Mindy Young (Managing Director at Equality Utah), Troy Williams (Executive Director at Equality Utah), and Nikki Walker (Director of DE&I at Domo)!

Join us for this engaging and poignant conversation about the state of equality in Utah, what the future holds, why your business should care about DE&I, and how we can all help to create a more inclusive community.

Join Earl Foote and Levi Lindsay for an informative discussion on positive change.

Topics discussed in this segment:
- Why is mental health still stigmatized
- What made you start mind.?
- Why did you leave your business?
- How can companies succeed in marketing with a limited budget?