The NP Studio: Recent Episodes
Naman Parikh
The NP Studio Podcast is structured in the form of an informal, free-flowing conversation where our guests, renowned individuals in their respective fields, share the thoughts and journeys that have shaped their personal and professional aspirations.
Ankur Goyal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Impira, a series-B AI platform that understands the context and attributes of unstructured data to bridge its information into a structured format. Previously, he served as the Vice President of Engineering at SingleStore.
Pranav Gandhi is the head of backend engineering at SIMON Markets, a spinoff from Goldman Sachs with 100,000 financial professionals with $5 trillion in client assets that offers a marketplace for risk-managed and alternative solutions. He has served as a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the past.
Matt is the co-founder of Bonfire, an NFT-based platform empowering creative communities using social tokens. He has previously worked as a PM at Uber, and a VC fellow at Kleiner Perkins and On Deck.
Daphne is the CEO of WorldQuant University, an online, accredited not-for-profit under the umbrella of the international hedge fund WorldQuant that provides a free-of-cost Masters in Financial Engineering degree. Other than nurturing 35+ start-ups and mentoring international organizations for women empowerment, she is also a frequent speaker at leading events including the Nantucket Project, the Credit Suisse Women's Summit, and the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos and Africa.
Her Highness Queen Radhikaraje Gaekwad is a Member of the Royal Gaekwad Family in India. She currently runs one of the largest private residences in the world while managing several impactful community service and history/heritage projects in India.
Shubbu is a professional voice over artist from India who has also served as an executive in the software, manufacturing, and education industries previously.
Dr. Rajesh Parekh is the Engineering Director for Google's geospatial data team, responsible for applications such as Google Maps, Local Search, Autonomous Driving, Ridesharing, and Food delivery. He has also previously worked as a senior executive in companies such as Facebook, Groupon, and Yahoo.
Regan Fiascone worked as a Product Development Engineer at Proctor and Gamble and as an innovation consultant at EPAM Continuum before leaving to pursue her MBA and MS from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Ani Mohan is a part of Forbes 30 Under 30 as the CEO of GameSnacks and also serves as an On Deck fellow. He has previously worked as a Product Manager at Google and Dropbox.
Luke Truitt is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bridgesplit, a fractionalized NFT-based company. He has previously worked at companies like General Motors and Optiver and has co-founded the Duke Applied Machine Learning Group.
Puja currently works as a Product Management Lead at Google Pay and balances that with being a mother of two. She has previously worked in a managerial capacity at companies like eBay, PayPal, and Facebook.
Thamina Stoll works as an account director for LinkedIn and is also the host of the "Femme Hive Podcast" for women empowerment.
Diego Granados is a Senior Product Manager in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning space at Microsoft.
Monil Pandya has worked as a CFO for Citi (Enterprise O&T) and currently serves as the head of its Global Consumer Bank Data Team.
Rob Chesnut is the ex-General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer of Airbnb. Jillian Manus is the Managing Partner of Silicon Valley Venture Fund Structure Capital.