What you’ll learn:

Meet: Cassio Goldschmidt is regarded as an internationally recognized, award-winning security expert. With more than 20 years of experience, Mr. Goldschmidt has a remarkable record of industry accolades and honors.

They include:

Other honors include being:

Cassio holds a bachelor degree in computer science (BS in CS) from Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande Do Sul (PUC-RS), a masters degree in software engineering (MS in SE) from Santa Clara University (SCU), and a master of business administration (MBA) from the University of Southern California (USC).

If you have any questions for Cassio, please feel free to reach out via LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassiogoldschmidt/

I hope you enjoyed the episode, the best place to connect with me is on Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand). Please send me a message if you would like me to cover certain topics with future guests.

Meet: Cassio Goldschmidt is regarded as an internationally recognized, award-winning security expert. With more than 20 years of experience, Mr. Goldschmidt has a remarkable record of industry accolades and honors.

They include:

Other honors include being:

Cassio holds a bachelor degree in computer science (BS in CS) from Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande Do Sul (PUC-RS), a masters degree in software engineering (MS in SE) from Santa Clara University (SCU), and a master of business administration (MBA) from the University of Southern California (USC).

What you’ll learn:

If you have any questions for Cassio, please feel free to reach out via LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassiogoldschmidt/

Meet: Michael Remyn is a product management executive who is passionate about creating intuitive user experiences within enterprise software. As a Director of Product Management at American Express, Michael has delivered products aimed to bring user efficiency and productivity to multiple instances of Salesforce, from complex transformations such as combining instances and overhauling the user interface to a variety of smaller products meant to improve sales and client management processes.

Michael has built high performing digital product teams while coaching and training others through the organization. He also has shown a continued focus on the digital experience by creating his own in-house user experience team to increase focus on user workflow and build the right solutions that solve user and stakeholder problems.

Michael also has experience with data analytics, corporate strategy, and financial management before moving full time into digital product management.

What you’ll learn:

Salesforce is not just an IT application

Managing user request change

Enterprises are becoming more customer-centric

With more data, we need more clarity

Data quality is a journey

If you have any questions for Michael, please feel free to reach out via LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-remyn-875145/

Meet: Mike Arbitman, Senior Director, Technology Organization Data and Analytics at Medidata, a technology leader skilled at defining, building, improving, and optimizing data-focused organizations delivering innovative and leading-edge solitons

What you’ll learn:

Modernization of master data management

Determining the system of record

The changing complexity of data projects

If you have any questions for Mike, please feel free to reach out via LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelarbitman/

Meet: Mark Shasha is the Head of Security at Braze. He is a career security professional specializing in enterprise application and infrastructure security.

What you’ll learn:

Working in an engineering org where the CTO still checks in code

Owning  security processes

Looking for transferable skills in hiring DevOps and Security professionals.

If you have any questions for Mark, please feel free to reach out via LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/markshasha/

Meet: Chris Ham is the Engineering Operations Manager and Chief of Staff to the CTO at Novantas. He is responsible for DevOps, Cloud/on-prem implementation and integration, the interface between Engineering and Infrastructure, and Big-data infrastructure.

Chris’s career path has focused on blending leadership and deep technical expertise. His CV includes:

-Continued service, including a deployment, as an officer in the US Navy Reserve

-A background in corporate Tech Ops finance

-Work as a quant in the bank treasury/risk space

What you’ll learn:

Leveraging his military management experience

Partnering with DevOps and the strategic technology roadmap

Transitioning from the military to the private sector

If you have any questions for  Chris, please feel free to reach out via LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-l-ham/

Meet: Maria Latushkin is responsible for leading Omada Health’s technology vision and team.

Prior to joining Omada Health and moving to the healthcare space, Maria has spent over 15 years in eCommerce, retail, and enterprise SaaS companies ranging from series B startups to large companies, such as Walmart.

What you’ll learn:

Don’t hire for culture fit, make culturally additive hires

Hiring people for the right context for your environment or stage of growth

Signals that you might need to add process to your org

Adjusting style and process in supporting a fully distributed engineering org

If you have any questions for Maria, please feel free to reach out via LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-latushkin-799700/

Meet: Greg Miaskiewicz, CEO & Co-Founder at Capbase, a startup building legal & financial tools for startups. Previously, CEO & Co-Founder of Swarm, a bot detection startup, which exited to Integral Ad Science in 2016. Greg has over a decade of experience working at early-stage Silicon Valley startups in product, engineering, and design roles.

What you’ll learn (disclaimer - this is not legal advice):

Avoiding pitfalls in forming your startup’s legal entity

Implications of incorrectly setting up your entity

What to look for in evaluating equity as apart of a job offer

If you would like to reach out to Greg about anything he discussed on the podcast, please reach out to him via:

https://twitter.com/miaskiewicz

https://www.instagram.com/miaskiewicz/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/miaskiewicz/

email: [email protected]

Meet:  Sanji Fernando is a senior vice president at Optum, where he leads the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Analytics Platforms team for Optum Enterprise Analytics (OEA).  He is responsible for developing platforms that support the design and development of leading-edge AI models and analytic tools for the enterprise.

Previously, Sanji was a vice president at OptumLabs and led the OptumLabs Center for Applied Data Science (CADS).  The CADS team applied breakthroughs in AI and machine learning to solve complex health care challenges for UnitedHealth Group (UHG) by developing and deploying software product concepts. CADS pioneered using deep learning to streamline administrative processes in revenue cycle management and developed graph analytics tools to support provider network design, among other innovations.

Sanji joined OptumLabs in 2014 from Nokia, where he created Nokia’s first data science team.  His team launched the first big data computing cluster at Nokia, using cluster derived insights on user activity and engagement to design new product concepts.  Before that, Sanji spent 9 years at Nokia in a variety of corporate roles with Nokia’s Multimedia Division, Nokia Research Center, and Nokia Ventures.

Prior to Nokia, Sanji was a co-founder and VP of Engineering at Vettro, a venture-backed mobile software company.  Sanji began his career in consulting with Viant and Accenture.

Sanji is a graduate of Trinity College with a bachelor’s degree in computer science.  He lives in the Boston area with his wife and their three boys.  In his free time, Sanji enjoys coaching his sons in basketball and baseball.   He also serves on the board of his local Little League.

What you’ll learn:

Evaluating the value of AI solutions

Growth of AI in the healthcare space

Establishing short and long term goals

Sanji mentioned our annual survey on AI in health care and we recently shared the findings from our 3rd annual survey; we have both a press release and special report on that.

If you would like to reach out to Sanji about anything he discussed on the podcast, please reach out to him via:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjifernando/

Meet: Marick S. Sinay, Ph.D. is Vice President Head of Data Science and Analytics for Aspiration. Dr. Sinay has been in the broader financial services industry in various quantitative financial modeling and data science roles. He has experience working at large financial institutions, Bank of America and Western Asset Management, as well as at FinTech startups in the Los Angeles area. Dr. Sinay has successfully hired and led teams of data scientists, data analysts, and data engineers to drive business intelligence and advanced predictive analytics using machine learning to solve enterprise initiatives. He has a Ph.D. in Statistics and Applied Probability, Masters in Statistics, and a Masters in Economics from the University of California Santa Barbara.

What you’ll learn: 

Career advice - tips and advice for analyst and data scientists to grow

Building data teams - do’s and don’ts to building a successful diverse team