Thoughts From The Big Chair

Frode studies how enterprises, investors, and policymakers can best navigate the transition to a post-industrial civilization and economy. He is the founder of the Post-Industrial Institute, which provides advisory, educational, and strategic services to corporates and investors to help them turn disruption into opportunity. Frode is also the founder of the Post-Industrial Forum, a global community formed to develop and promote a better understanding of the post-industrial transition and how to navigate it. Its members include investors, executives, founders, and policymakers.

Frode is the author of a forthcoming book on the post-industrial transition and regularly speaks to international corporate and investor audiences. A serial entrepreneur since his high school years, Frode’s multi-disciplinary background stretches from theoretical computer science to the boardroom. He has a passion for history, linguistics, disruptive technologies, philosophy, and Iwama-style Aikido.

Strategic questions to ask on the digital transformation journey.

Shanker has extensive P&L leadership and consulting experience driving profitable growth in 100+ countries.  He has a rich background in strategy, acquisition, international expansion, and organic growth in professional services and knowledge-driven industry eco-systems.  He has a particular expertise in operating savings via shared services, consolidation, automation, crowd-sourcing, and offshoring. He thrives in simplifying complex environments that leverage Big Data and analytics to achieve exceptional outcomes for the enterprise, shareholders, and customers.

https://in.linkedin.com/in/nikhilnath

Nikhil Nath is the CEO of Knowcross, an enterprise SaaS company focused on hotel operations. Knowcross' products are used by leading hotel brands in 41 countries worldwide. Knowcross was the first investee company of the Indian Angel Network, India's largest angel investment fund.

Specialties: Startups, Venture Capital, Strategy; Software design, development, marketing, sales

 https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeevkapur1/

Rajeev is the CEO of www.1105media.com.  Rajeev is a global business and technology leader and Chief Executive Officer.  His passion is to  reinvent and resuscitate business cultures, transforming stagnant sales into dynamic multimillion-dollar growth for small and middle-market companies. As a true innovator, he’s passionate about repairing broken market strategies, company cultures and leadership stagnation to identify and capture new business opportunities.
 
With work experience in over 20 countries, he builds and develops global teams, purposefully inspiring collaboration. He strives for a positive, healthy company culture, building on the core belief that a fully engaged workforce delivers high customer satisfaction and retention. 

Adam is a repeat entrepreneur, angel investor, and the CEO/co-founder of https://www.workpatterns.com/, the people management software company. 

WorkPatterns cultivates the habits of great leaders to help organizations around the world achieve their mission through guided 1:1s, feedback, recognition, and goal setting. The WorkPatterns app is used by hundreds of high performing organizations including Estée Lauder, Panasonic, Carfax, Automattic, Clorox, and many others.

Prior to founding WorkPatterns, Adam was part of the founding team of NextRoll (formerly AdRoll) and helped grow the company from 3 to 700 employees around the world. The company was voted one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area five times.

TP leads BLP Group https://industry-ai.com/ - focused on Digital Transformation for Industry.

TP is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the renewables and environment industry. Skilled in Operations Management, Wind Energy, Leveraged Finance, Six Sigma, and Capital Markets. He is a strong business development professional with a MBA focused in Finance from Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Nicole is President of the EGC Group, a marketing and digital agency with offices NY and Sydney. A creative marketing and digital strategy veteran, Nicole and her team have led the strategic marketing direction for companies that include Canon USA, Brother International, Thompson Reuters, among others. 

Under Nicole’s watch, the agency has been named an Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Company, an Agency Post Top 100 Agency and a Google Premier Partner.

Nicole is also the co-founder of Raydeus, a digital marketing platform built for local marketing.

She has been named among the Five People to Watch in Advertising and Top 50 Most Influential Women by Adweek.

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

Yosh is the CEO & Co-Founder of Fulfilld - www.fulfilld.io.  He’s the former NIMBL CEO / Co-Founder (acquired by Techedge BIT:EDGE). He is also an:  advisor, board member, investor, author, relationship builder and mindfulness practitioner. 

Fulfilld is the Intelligent Warehouse Management Platform leveraging 5G ultra-wide band real-time location tracking services. Their disruptive technology and value-proposition is bringing long-overdue feature, function, and innovation to a long-underserved market segment. At a single monthly per user cost including both the Software platform and hardware, Fulfilld is upending the old-school enterprise WMS world.

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

He is currently President of www.cyglass.com – a SaaS cyber security business focused on network detection and response.  Ed has a proven sales and management record in the high technology market, both domestic and international, with competitive multinational companies. He has broad management experience in the technology industry with deep knowledge in areas of web based security software, and in marketing packaged applications and development tools.