Tech Alpharetta: Driving Innovation: Recent Episodes
Karen Cashion
Tech Alpharetta's new podcast show, Driving Innovation, features the people and companies who are driving tech innovation in Alpharetta. Our podcast episodes will specifically highlight:
Serial Entrepreneurs;
Under the Radar Exits;
Startup Success Stories; and
Transformational Leaders.
Richard Oesterreicher, CEO of Streaming Global, shares his journey from technologist to serial entrepreneur, and how startup success story Streaming Global is transforming the industry.
Our first podcast episode of 2022 features Romil Bahl, CEO of KORE, as he shares his thoughts on tech leadership, building culture, business transformation, and taking KORE public. Felipe Smolka, Chairman of Tech Alpharetta, is our guest host for this episode.
Jennifer Sparks, Founder of VacMobile, describes how they are using innovation to share vaccination records, from school vaccinations to COVID!
Our November episode of our Driving Innovation podcast features transformational tech leader Ryan Hollenbeck, SVP of Marketing for Verint and former Chairman of Tech Alpharetta. Ryan shares his thoughts on what being a transformational leader means, and some of his transformational initiatives (and his favorite reads). Join us!
Join us for 3rd episode of Driving Innovation, in which we interview serial entrepreneur and startup success story Adwait Joshi, founder and CEO of DataSeers, the fintech startup that has more than tripled in size since DataSeers graduated from our Tech Alpharetta incubator.
Driving Innovation Podcast: Stuart Granger, GoFan
The second episode in Tech Alpharetta's Driving Innovation podcast series explores an Under the Radar Tech Exit in Alpharetta, featuring GoFan CTO and Tech Alpharetta incubator startup mentor, Stuart Ganger.
With over 30 years of global experience, Granger has successfully started, scaled and sold technology companies. Granger has spent his career immersed in the technology industry, as an engineer, executive, entrepreneur, and advisor. He has worked in a variety of roles for companies both big and small, and has held a wide range of senior roles, including CEO, COO, CIO, and VP of Sales and Marketing.
Granger built a very successful software company here in Alpharetta, which he sold to a well-known enterprise corporation in an impressive, under the radar, local exit.
Today, as CTO of GoFan, Granger is leading the team building the GoFan digital ticketing systems. GoFan is a digital ticketing platform serving high school athletics. It is the digital ticketing platform of Huddle, the leader in high school event tickets and marketing. Since 2001, Huddle has provided over 2 billion Huddle Tickets to more than 10,000 high schools coast to coast.
Listen to learn more about Granger's successful, under the radar tech exit and his experience in the tech startup world.
Our first podcast, debuting this month, features Scott Williford, founder of vLink Solutions.
Scott is a serial entrepreneur and a startup success story. vLink is also a graduate of our Tech Alpharetta incubator, and our video and podcast series sponsor.