Uncaged Show

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  • UNCAGED With Steve Taplin

    Steve Taplin is the CEO of Sonatafy, a premier IT services firm that provides its clients with expertise in Cloud Solutions, Web and Mobile  Applications, E-Commerce, Big Data, DevOps Practices, QA, IoT, and  Machine Learning. He is an Official Member of the Forbes Technology  Council and is a frequent contributor to their online publication. He is also an Official Member of the Alliance of Chief Executives and  Executive Board Member of a Cloud Computing Managed Services Provider.


    Prior to working at Sonatafy, Steve was the Vice President, Strategic  Pursuits at DXC Technology. Steve was also Vice President, Solution  Executive at IBM, President and CEO of TAPCO Private Equity Firm, and Sales Leader at IBM. He received a BS in Management Information Systems  from Northern Illinois University and a MBA from DePaul University.

    26 min
  • UNCAGED With Hazem Mulhim

    Hazem Mulhim's business was born on a street-side shop thousands of miles away from epicenters of technology. He started it in Amman, Jordan 35 years ago, and EastNets now is a recognized global developer of financial solutions serving 1000 financial institutes on five continents.


    His career began with Siemens in Kuwait where he first saw how computing saved the medical industry. He had just graduated with a Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering and Medical Electronics from Bulgaria in 1980. He also hold a Certificate of Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the prestigious Institute of INSEAD, France and an OWP from IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.

    While in Kuwait, the IT industry was starting to take off in the US and elsewhere, and Hazem foresaw how computers would dominate our future.He applied for work in the US in 1982, and it was there that he developedhis deeper insights into technology and entrepreneurship.

    Hazem's journey has been dotted with a lot of growing pains and sacrifices. Throughout his career, he had to pivot with the times to ensure his business survived. Since 1984, EastNets has been transforming. They have shifted from smart cards to networks and computers, and finally to provider solutions for the critical operations of anti-money laundering (AML), KYC, payments and antifraud.

    Survival eventually meant global expansion, and the fastest track forward was to acquire an entity with access to new markets. His choice in 2007 would rest on SIDE International, a leader in AML solutions based in Belgium. In 2018, a patent was published in the USA for designing a system for cross border remittances while securing financial regulatory compliance.

    With fresh blood injected in EastNets, they penetrated new markets, winning multiple prestigious international awards. In 2017, Chartis ranked EastNets as Category Leader in its RiskTech Quadrants, the industry’s leading report on financial crime and risk management.


    Currently, their teams are optimizing solutions with artificial intelligence and blockchain capabilities. In no small part, EastNets success is its dedication to investing in competitive human resources.

    Hazem joined Rewell in 2016 as the executive committee chairman. Today, the Society is training more Jordanians and building more capacity for women entrepreneurs in underprivileged communities.

    23 min
  • UNCAGED With Michael Bor

    Michael Bor is an experienced entrepreneur with over 20 years in finance, automotive wholesale and retail, fleet management and leasing, vehicle remarketing, technology, business development, sales, mergers and acquisitions, and management.


    Currently, Michael is founder and CEO of CarLotz, a high growth start-up that’s revolutionizing the way consumers and commercial vehicle remarketers (leasing companies, banks and financial institutions, and large dealership groups) sell their vehicles...at retail versus wholesale.  Michael founded CarLotz with two partners and has raised five rounds of angel, seed, traditional bank, specialty finance, and institutional capital (both equity and debt) to grow the business. In 2021, CarLotz became a public company through a SPAC merger and now trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol LOTZ. Michael is also the Founder and Chairman of Orange Grove Fleet Solutions, a commercial fleet vehicle leasing and fleet management company.

    Prior to founding CarLotz, Michael was a Director in the Transportation and Logistics Group at Harris Williams & Co., a leading middle-market Mergers and Acquisitions advisory firm, where he worked for 7 years. Prior to Harris Williams, Michael was an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and a financial fraud investigator with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Michael's experience includes long-term assignments in New York, Tokyo, London, and now Richmond, VA where he currently lives.

    Michael serves on the Virginia Motor Vehicle Dealer Board. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS cum laude in Finance from Lehigh University.

    34 min
  • UNCAGED With Stacey Staaterman

    Stacey is a Certified Professional Coach (Leadership, Career Growth) and Communications Consultant with extensive experience in advertising, media, entertainment, journalism, luxury, tourism, travel, communications, and financial services.


    Modern-day leadership can be lonely and even isolating. She partners with leaders (and organizations) that want to drive next-level results and more happiness. Stacey leverages her pragmatic, feet-on-the-street business experience to co-create solutions that help leaders level up their careers, teams, businesses, and lives.

    Prior to becoming a professional leadership coach and consultant, Stacey held leadership positions in the advertising and media industry for more than 20 years – with companies including American Express, Time Warner, Fast Company, Meredith Corporation, and Scholastic.

    She coaches teams, leaders, executives, and high-potentials at organizations including Google, Meredith Corporation, Egon Zehnder, Mercer Healthcare, Amazon, Piaget, Delta Dental, Saks Fifth Avenue, New York University, Chanel, Random House, LVMH, Sesame Street Workshop, Novartis, Prudential, Consumer Reports, Fortune, Post Foods, StartUp Institute, Marsh & McLennan, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Media Lab, Random House, Blackstone, Deloitte, Legal Zoom, Bloomberg Media, and EY.

    Stacey received her B.S. in Advertising from Syracuse University (S.I. Newhouse School of Communications) and completed a digital media from Rutgers University.

    30 min
  • UNCAGED With Dr. Arwinder Judge

    Dr. Arwinder Judge is Chief Clinical Officer at Aspen Dental Management, Inc. (ADMI), where he’s responsible for developing, implementing, and  leading programs that support the dentists who own and operate Aspen Dental-branded practices.


    A member of ADMI’s executive leadership team, Dr. Judge serves as a clinical liaison to nearly 1,200 dentists across the country, providing professional development, support and mentorship to dentists at various stages of their careers, from new dentists to experienced professionals. In his role, he leads a team of clinical support directors who onboard and acclimate new doctors to Aspen Dental, while also helping Aspen Dental practice owners grow and expand their practices.

    Dr. Judge is a frequent speaker who plays a leadership role in the company’s recruitment efforts as well as for doctor development programs. A staunch supporter of continuing dental education, he also serves as chairperson on ADMI’s credentialing committee and served on the national advisory board for CMA Insurance.

    Dr. Judge is active as a member of the American Dental Association, New York State Dental Association, Fifth District Dental Society, and  Onondaga Dental Association. He was previously a member of Empire Dental Political Action Committee, Indian Dental Association, and Oswego  Dental Association, where he was a member of the Peer Review Committee. Dr. Judge has been recognized twice by the New York State Dental  Association for his dedication to the profession and patient care.

    Before joining ADMI in 2008, Dr. Judge owned and operated several dental practices, and was president at East West Management Services.

    He received his Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) from New York University College of Dentistry and holds a certificate from the Executive  Management Program from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.

    19 min
  • UNCAGED With Anas Chbib

    Anas Chbib is one of the most respected leaders in the security industry, known for his unmatched business ethics, inspirational entrepreneurial spirit, and fierce desire to offer organizations worldwide highly-secured environments in order to ensure business continuity and better service.


    Chbib founded and grew AGT into an admired and successful security company with his innovative management techniques. His achievements are highly respected in the security industry, and as a result, leading corporations, government institutions, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies worldwide have partnered with AGT to face evolving security threats. This includes National Security consulting projects for several governmental entities as well as AGT as the lead consultancy of the largest Digital Forensics Laboratory in the EMEA region.

    Anas has always been defined by his visionary leadership style, his strength of will, and the necessary knowledge to achieve long-term goals. A focused individual with strong influential skills, Anas’ unique ability to inspire his team helped positioned AGT as a strong player in this challenging industry. In 2020, AGT has been awarded the MEA Business Awards 2020 as the Cyber Security Training Consultancy of the Year.

    Anas holds a Business Administrations and Computer science from the University of Cologne.

    17 min
  • UNCAGED With David Rogers

    David started out his working life performing mostly hospitality work, and it was there he learned the criticality of great service and personal consideration. He later doves into the automotive industry, a place where hospitality, ethics and a true commitment to customer service were desperately needed and nearly unheard of, for the most part.

    One of the companies he operates, (www.KellerBros.com), was named the sole National Excellence Award Winner in 1999. Since then, Keller Bros. Inc. has consistently won award after award while growing by millions (per year) in revenue those first few years until the location reached capacity.
    These awards and referrals led other business owners to him, seeking similar change in their organizations. After helping a few of them and realizing the formula and systems they had developed in their own small business were proving to be successful everywhere, they formed Auto Profit Masters.
    David soon realized that their number 1 challenge after becoming synchronized and operationally smooth was finding or creating affordable marketing and advertising that WORKED, so "The Automated Marketing Group LLC" was conceived. 


    The POS & shop mgmt technology at shop owners' disposal was about 20-25 years old with no noticable improvements. It took multiple programs to address EACH vehicle, and they were all slow, burdensome, and expensive. There is where the greatest accomplishment of  David's career began. SHOP 4D (patents pending) uses Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning in every aspect of auto repair while eliminating the need for multiple subscriptions to other products. Your POS now incl wiring diagrams, parts ordering, electronic inspections, it's integrated with Quick books and cc processing, and SHOP 4D is the most intelligent, inter-connected and fastest solution on the planet!

    25 min
  • UNCAGED With Donald Williams

    Donald Williams is EVP and CDO of Horizon Media, the world’s largest independent marketing services provider, and manages all technical,  performance, content, and commerce, capabilities. As head of digital strategy and operations, he manages 7 direct reports, and a team of +350 employees with established capabilities in New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto. He works closely with C-suite, senior-level marketing and IT leaders of more than 120 Fortune 100 companies in retail, financial services, CPG, technology, automotive, restaurant, media, healthcare, and travel industries.


    Prior to becoming CDO, Donald was the Vice President of Digital Strategy where he oversaw digital and collaborated with brand planning to integrate existing digital capabilities. Before coming to Horizon Media, Donald was a Digital Supervisor at Ignited where he managed strategic partnerships and business relationships with the agency’s key clients, including Sega, Konami and Activision gaming companies. He also worked as a Digital Supervisor at Carat Global and was a Marketing Coordinator for MullenLowe (formerly Lowe Worldwide) in NYC.

    Donald received a B.A. in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

    23 min
  • UNCAGED With Carolyn Treasure

    Carolyn Treasure is the co-founder of Peachy, the first science-based wrinkle prevention brand, offering preventative Botox, prescription  retinoids, and daily-use SPF. Peachy believes that wrinkle treatment and prevention should be as straightforward as the data behind it. Based on that, they offer three scientifically-demonstrated methods to treat and prevent wrinkles with their own uniquely formulated prescription retinoids, preventative Botox and daily-use SPF.   

    Carolyn has achieved the title of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) by Harvard Medical School with cum laude distinction for academic research and during her years of study she was the Co-president of Prevention, Health, Awareness and Choice through Education and published in multiple peer-reviewed medical journals.

    16 min
  • UNCAGED With Peter Kolarov

    Peter Kolarov is the Founder and CEO of Crayonic, a cybersecurity startup launched in 2015 focused on solving problems of proving the true identity of people and things in the digital domain.


    Peter is an experienced entrepreneur and technologist who spent the past 15 years architecting, developing and selling award-winning electronic signature and IAM solutions to global customers in finance. He also speaks at different events and hackathons on topics of electronic signatures, self-sovereign identities, secure decentralized authentication and real-world blockchain applications.

    Prior to the launch of Crayonic, Peter worked for Anasoft APR (2006-2015) as a senior Solution Architect focusing on the cybersecurity field of Identity and Access Management and digital signatures.

    In 2003, he launched a mobile software development company and developed multiple projects such as an interactive TV platform and TV station that sold later to a Norwegian TV network.

    He co-founded his first startup in 2000 (Strings Inc.,  Seattle, WA) around unique variable data printing and templating technology that he developed for PDF print-ready documents. He sold the company to EFI/Printcafe in 2001.

    Prior to this, in 1994, he joined a startup video game development company in Redmond, WA, where he led the software development team creating multiple high-profile titles across different platforms such as the Harry Potter series.

    Peter was born in former Czechoslovakia. He studied Electrical Engineering in Bratislava, Slovakia and at the University of Nevada, Reno and graduated at the top of his class.

    25 min

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