Uncaged Show

Joe Orr is the founder and president of Harvest Moon Innovations, a consulting firm focused on the insurance industry. Harvest Moon works hand-and-hand with insurance retail agencies, general agencies,  carriers, lead aggregators, and web-based information verticals to deliver strategic business focus and planning, product development and distribution, and retention programs, to name a few resulting in tangible sustainable solutions.  

Joe comes from a traditional media background in film, television, and theatrical marketing. He co-founded award-winning Fleet Street Pictures and went on to start the Cobalt Moon division of Fleet Street developing web marketing campaigns for Intel, Microsoft, Proctor and Gamble, MGM,  US Olympic Committee, and others. He also engineered e-commerce applications for Fujitsu, Intel, and Microsoft.  

Joe advised start-up Answer Financial. His prototype for insurance offering at Answer got him heavily involved in the digital insurance space and has informed his career ever since. At Answer, he became SVP of Product. During his tenure, he was responsible for e-commerce strategy, web product development, IT,  interactive marketing, and product management for all LOBs.  

From there, Joe acted as COO of Snap Insurance and was involved in all operations of the insurance process from marketing and web development to strategy and offshore call center implementation. He was the EVP of  Insurance at Clearlink Insurance Agency managing all insurance operations and increased agency footprint from 4 agents to over 250  licensed professionals.

Innovative and passionate executive in advanced manufacturing services, with a demonstrated history of providing digital transformation solutions for the world’s largest manufacturers. Works collaboratively with internal and external partners, delivering innovative solutions for Automation, IT, Packaging, & Information Solutions applications with a focus on regulated industries. Entrepreneurially executed the growth of a startup organization into a market innovator while delivering positive business results for shareholders. With a deep technical understanding, significant business acumen and industry experience, he represents the next generation of business leaders in the advanced manufacturing space.

Michael Chock is the Chief Solutions Officer of SmartMedia Technologies. He is also a co-founder and strategic advisor at Fyllo, a data  marketplace and cannabis company. Michael has a background in neuroscience and is fascinated by how humans interact with technology. His focus is to innovate the marketing and technology spaces while being mindful of its intersection with humanity.

Jessica Kriegel has been guiding global, national, Fortune 100 and other organizations across finance, technology, real estate and healthcare  industries on how to create intentional cultures that accelerate performance for over 15 years.

Kenneth Arthur is the Chief Commercial Officer at VisionID, an independent supplier of Mobile Computing, Identification and Bar-Coding solutions to all industry sectors throughout Ireland. VisionID Ltd. was formed to provide Barcode and Data Capture solutions in today’s “real-time” society. Whatever the industry sector, data capture technology can facilitate improved performance and efficiency and deliver a realistic ROI in a very short time-frame.

Adam Williams is the Chief Revenue Officer of Liquid Web and Nexcess. Liquid Web is a hosting company totally devoted to web and cloud  professionals, providing managed hosting products and services to over 45,000+ customers, spanning 150 countries. At Liquid Web, it has always  been about people. It has always been personal. They are growing – fast. As Liquid Web’s Chief Revenue Officer, Adam oversees revenue operations for the Liquid Web and Nexcess brands. He joined the team in 2020.

Dr. Dean Bartles is a seasoned operations professional with four decades of management experience in manufacturing and technology. He is  currently the President and CEO of the Manufacturing Technology Deployment Group, Inc., a not-for-profit holding company of both the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) and Advanced Manufacturing International, Inc. (AMI), a new subsidiary and sister company to NCDMM.  

Since 2010, Dr. Dean Bartles served as a board member for NCDMM before joining as the President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2019. Prior  to this, he served as the President of the National Tooling and Machining Association and was previously the Director of the John Olson Advanced Manufacturing Center at the University of New Hampshire. 

Dr. Bartles was the founding Executive Director of the Digital Manufacturing  and Design Innovation Institute in Chicago and the Chief Manufacturing Officer of UI LABS. Dr. Bartles worked for General Dynamics Corporation for 30 years where he was responsible for setting up and running manufacturing operations in Egypt, Turkey, and the United States. Between 2001 and 2014, Dr. Bartles increased sales at General Dynamics Corporation from $135 million to over $600 million. Before his time at General Dynamics Corporation, Dr. Bartles worked for Fairchild Republic Company as an Industrial Engineer for approximately 5 years.

Bradley Channer is the CFO of RotoVR a VC backed, manufacturing e-commerce Virtual Reality gaming chair company. Bradley has over ten years of experience in creating and implementing business strategies, infrastructure, and change management, to help VC funded start-ups build  infrastructure and execute on an exit strategy. As well as experience in sales and marketing, Bradley has worked with all sorts of financial models from SaaS businesses to manufacturing companies across sectors.

Brittain Ladd is Chief Supply Chain & Marketing Officer of Pulse Integration. He designs and implement supply chains that enable growth and create a competitive advantage. He also provides consulting on the topics of strategy, e-commerce, retail, M&A, logistics, and operations and  provides high-level assessments of what a company is missing and WHY they're not getting the results they want. Brittain makes a professional recommendations for the best next steps a company should take now to take their business to the next level.  

He has spent more than 15 years designing and implementing strategies for some of the largest companies in the world including Amazon, Walmart, Dell, Flipkart, Kroger, X5 Retail Group, and Google to name a few. He provides consulting to McKinsey, Bain & Company, and the Boston Consulting Group.

Attila Sükösd is the CTO & Co-Founder at Airtame, the wireless presentation and digital signage platform that makes screens smarter. During all his career, Attila has specialized in making the impossible a reality. He started programming at 11 when his parents gave him his first computer. Since then, he's been passionate about understanding how computers and other machines work. 

He moved to Denmark with his family at a young age where he graduated from the Technical University of Denmark as a computer engineer. He has always been an entrepreneur at heart, and throughout his career, he has founded a number of startups, with Airtame being the biggest to date.  

His expertise lies in building high-performing engineering teams, overseeing complex hardware and software products, creating out-of-the-box solutions, and guiding teams through difficult situations with calm, calculated decisions.   

Attila is a board member and an advisor for a number of hardware/software-focused startups.