Richard Earnest is a six-time CEO, leadership expert, and author of the new book - Leading with Ethics and Humanity - Do you have the guts? We speak with Richard about his new book, what it was like as a first-time book author, and how the lessons he learned leading in the US Navy and as a CEO and …
CapitalGeek
by Josh Stephens
On CapitalGeek we discuss the lessons learned from seasoned industry veterans and subject matter experts, geeks of all kinds. From product and engineering, operations and finance, or sales and marketing we’ll learn from their stories as they’ve traversed the path from invention to IPO, with all the battle scars to prove it.
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Austin Trees is the Senior Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and an industry expert on everything office space.
On this episode of Capital Geek Austin shares best practice and what to look out for when leasing an office space.
This week's guest was Bo Blackburn and Jeff Daily, co-founders at Sellers Shield. Sellers Shield is revolutionizing the way that seller's disclosures are handled during real estate transactions and helping to radically evolve the way that real estate transactions are handled through their next-gene…
That was Jonathan Sass, vice president of product and marketing at Vyopta. Vyopta is helping customers get the most out of technologies like Zoom, Slack, and MS Teams while integrating in-person participation for folks returning to the office. There's never been a better time to explore how platfo…
Joe Schreiber is CEO and founder at AppNovi. Joe and his co-founder Ethan Smart have spent the last 20 years in various cybersecurity roles. They founded AppNovi to solve a gap in the marketplace that they kept running up against while doing incident response, cybersecurity risk analysis, and threa…
As CEO, Denny LeCompte is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and strategic direction at Portnox. Denny brings over 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure and cyber security. Prior to joining Portnox, Denny held executive leadership roles at leading IT management and security f…
Debbie is an award winning serial technology entrepreneur, CEO, founder, board member, thought leader, author and advisor with a 26 year track record of scaling profitable technology startups.
She is currently the founder and chairwoman of Stride Consulting, an agile software development firm. She h…
Andrew has a strong track record of growing and leading early and mid-stage companies into stable organizations. He co-founded CREDANT Technologies in 2001 (data encryption software) and was acquired by Dell in December 2012 and he is a former Chairman of the Graduate School Alumni Board at the Univ…
Shelley Perry has 25 years of experience as a software executive, including with NTT, HP, and TicketMaster. She also spent four years as a Venture and Operating Partner with Insight Partners, and today works with Nexa Equity Partners and with us at Elsewhere Partners as an Independent Advisor. She r…
Jack Naglieri is a professional with a passion for information security, cloud infrastructure, and security software.
His exposure to information security began as an incident responder for Verisign. After graduation from George Mason University, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and spent two …
Peter Kirby is a long-time entrepreneur and early pioneer in the blockchain space. He co-founded a Bitcoin hardware company in 2013 and a blockchain technology company in 2014. Peter also executed one of the earliest ICOs in 2015 as CEO of Factom, Inc. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal…
Amanda developed her business acumen by repeatedly scaling metrics and creating value for a number of VC-backed startups and established technology companies like Rackspace, Dell, SolarWinds, NetQoS (bought by CA), PeopleAdmin (a Vista Equity Portfolio Co), and Pervasive Software. She has taken 4 co…
Ramon Chen, Chief Product Officer, oversees ActivTrak’s product strategy with a passion for all things data. He’s dedicated to helping organizations and their employees #workwiser through ActivTrak’s workforce analytics platform; ensuring a win-win that improves productivity, while fostering individ…
That was Kevin Gervais, founder and CTO at Touchless. This week we catch up with Kevin and discuss his passion for enabling user experience for neuro diverse users and how Touchless is changing the game for people with Autism. This is a subject that is very close to my heart and I can't wait to di…
Ron is currently the founder and CEO of xtype, a Value Stream and DevOps platform for ServiceNow. Ron has over 25 years of experience in enterprise tech and a proven track record of taking innovative solutions to market. Ron started at test automation company Mercury interactive, spent ten years in …
Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop and best-selling author of Project To Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework. Mik started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC where he built the first aspect-oriented development environment. He t…
This week on Capital GEEK we host a panel discussion with industry experts Heidi Farris, Dan Schoenbaum, and Wes Bush on the evolution of Product-led growth. This event was recorded in partnership with Elsewhere Partners, and we had a great panel discussion and several awesome questions from the au…
Lisa Xu serves as Chief Executive Officer where she is responsible for overseeing the overall strategic and operational functions for NopSec. Lisa has a passion for connecting business with technology and thrives in transforming disruptive technology into leading solutions. Over the past two decades…
Ronen Yehoshua, co-founder and CEO of Morphisec, has over 20 year of technology management and venture capital experience. Prior to Morphisec, Ronen was a partner at Cedar Fund, an international venture capital firm with over $325M under management. In this strategic, hands-on role, he led investmen…
Kevin Fishner is the Chief of Staff at HashiCorp, where he treats the company as a product. He joined the cloud infrastructure automation company in 2014 as the first business hire, going on to spin up the sales, solutions engineering, account management, and marketing teams. Afterwards, he spent 3 …