Changing Reality: Recent Episodes
Changing Reality
Changing Reality is a segment on WQHS Radio, the University of Pennsylvania’s official student-run radio channel, that features top executives, social changemakers, game-changing entrepreneurs and inspiring individuals from across the world. Hear their inspiring stories on how they are changing the reality that they live in!
Changing Reality is hosted by Harsha, an 18-year-old social entrepreneur and an undergraduate student at Penn. She is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Ascendance, a youth movement that empowers over 4,000 students in 270 communities. Harsha is also the CEO and Founder of the social start-up, StartMyName.com, a multiple TEDx and international conference speaker and the author of "The Makings of A Teenage Entrepreneur".
If you love it, just go after it! This week on Changing Reality, we will be having Nicole Breskin, the Vice President, Product at Disney shared how she commenced her journey to go after the thing that she was passionate about and the mind-boggling lessons she learned along the way.
This week, we will be talking to John Gamba, Entrepreneur in Residence at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania!
What goes on behind the scenes in the life of an educator? Listen to Eli Lesser this week on Changing Reality as we dive deep into his journey of becoming an educator and how his passion for authentic education led him to the work he is doing today as the Executive Director of the Wharton Global Youth Program.
Have you ever wondered how small changes in a conversation, situation or your environment could significantly impact your life? We're back again with another mind-blowing conversation on Changing Reality with Andrew Griffiths, the Director of Community & Partnership at Planet Mark. In this episode, we'll uncover how the various choices, conversations and environments in our life shape who we are and what we do.
With the world of blockchain and crypto ever-growing and evolving, we speak to one of the experts in the field of how his journey shaped his interest in the field and the essential experiences that enabled him to grow and understand in the industry. This week we speak to Shayaan Khanna, the Head of Blockchain Partnerships at Mastercard. Listen to his experiences as he shares his journey of embarking in this field and the basics of how we can approach not only blockchain and cryptocurrency but any field that we are intrigued by.
This time on Changing Reality we will have Sarah Norman, a Team Lead, Enterprise at TikTok, Former Senior Advisor to Digital to Kamala Harris and a TV Commentator! While having a phenomenal career at Google and TikTok, Sarah decided to reach out to campaigns which would lead her to earn her the role of Senior Advisor at Kamala Harris's, the current Vice President of the United States, political campaign.
This week, we are having Stefan Whitwell, the Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Whitwell & Co. Learn from his phenomenal journey that took him across the world and up the ladder of the finance industry.
This week, we will be talking to Lindsay MacMillan, an author, TEDx Speaker & Former VP at Goldman Sachs!After graduating, she worked at Goldman Sachs for six years, where she climbed the corporate ladder and became a Vice President of the organization. While working in Finance, she also pursued her passion of becoming a novelist building towards her debut novel, 'The Heart of the Deal' which is one of the best-selling novels!
This week we will be talking to Taylor Durham, the Director of Marketing & Digital Studios at Venture Lab, the Wharton School! Learn about the difference between branding and marketing, what you should be thinking about when you craft a brand strategy and listen to the story of how one incredibly successful and influential individual charted his course in the world of marketing.
This week, we will be talking to Jeremy Bergeron, the Head of Strategy at Mission.org and he will be sharing with us his travel experiences around the world that led him to find his passion.
We are back again with another epic episode of Changing Reality to discover the life of a Penn Alumni who took the world of Film & TV by storm! We'll be talking to Joan Harrison, the Creator & Producer at LifeLaunch. She was also the Former Vice President of the Miniseries at CBS.
Have you ever been worried about not finding the right path for yourself? Find out how Lavanya Swetharanyan, the Director of Business Finance at Google did it. From being an engineering student to traveling the world and landing a phenomenal career at Google.
This week, we are having Neil Hoyne, the Chief Measurement Strategist at Google and the Author of Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers' Hearts.
We are so excited to have Jordan Sorkin, the Director of Sales Development at Linkedin on this week's Changing Reality Episode! Find out how his career evolved and the key lessons he learnt along the way.
We are back with another exciting episode of Changing Reality featuring Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, Michael R.Roberts! We talk about his journey as a professor, his secret behind crafting phenomenal classes, the importance of financial literacy among high schools and much more.
This week on Changing Reality, we will be diving deep into the social entrepreneurship arena with Professor Tyler Wry, an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton School who's research centers around hybrid ventures. Hybrid ventures are organizations that combine related, but potentially contradictory aims in their core.
This week we'll be talking to Raghuram Iyengar, Professor of Marketing at the Wharton Business School and Faculty Director of Wharton Customer Analytics! He will be sharing with us how he got started in his PhD journey and the important lessons he learned along the way! Join us as we find out about some of his extremely fascinating research, stories, and experiences.
This week we will be interviewing Professor Stefano Puntoni, the Professor at Rotterdam, School of Management, Erasmus University! Professor Stefano's research has been featured in famous media outlets such as the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, The Times, and many more!
We are back again with another exciting episode of Changing Reality this week!! Have you ever been fascinated by how we get relevant advertisements based on our interests? This week, we will be talking to Kyle Cook, the Senior Vice President of Digital & Emerging Media at Universal Media Inc! He is a very experienced person who has been in this industry for the past 11 years!
Can you transitions to become an entrepreneur when you're already an employee? How do you do that? This week, we'll be talking with Joyce Lim, the Founder & CEO of Simply Empowering, an outsourced accounting company that provides business advisory, secretarial services, training & workshops on full set accounts! Spoiler Alert: Joyce never intended to become an entrepreneur but now she is a very successful entrepreneur who has achieved time and money freedom!
This week we are having another wonderful speaker from GOOGLE!! We will be interviewing Sadie Thoma, the Director | US Creative Works @ Google! Sadie and her team uncover strategic marketing collaborations to drive forward business and brand goals. She believes in the possibilities of storytelling in the marketing landscape and to find out more about how this industry works, join us for this week's Changing Reality!
'Is AI going to take over our jobs?'. Has this thought ever crossed your mind? This week on Changing Reality, we have Pedro URIA-RECIO, Chief Analytics & AI Officer at True Digital Group which is Thailand's largest technology company, who will sharing more about the world of artificial intelligence.Also part of the Forbes Tech Council, he is here to provide insights on how AI can enhance your work in future!
Have you ever wondered how big companies come up with revolutionary ideas and how they strategize on what they are going to do next? This week, we will be featuring Sumeet Khanna, the Vice President, of Business Transformation and Strategic Initiatives at Microsoft! He will be sharing in-depth on how we can strategize and develop outstanding ideas for our companies.
Have you been hearing about entrepreneurship lately? Want to know how to get started? Well, this week on Changing Reality we will be featuring Clark Klitenic, the President of Yale Entrepreneurial Society who started with no intention of becoming an entrepreneur to now guiding many entrepreneurs in their journey.
We have all heard about Amazon, one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in the world, where you can practically get anything at your fingertips! But how does whole system even work? This week on Changing Reality, we will be talking to Kabir S Bedi, from Amazon! He manages browse and navigation experiences at Amazon. He specialises in machine learning, product development and strategy, mobile technology, UI and UX design.
Are you someone who have been using Microsoft Teams for your online classes, lectures, meetings, workshops, events, etc? Ever wanted to meet the people behind Microsoft Teams who makes the magic happen? This week, we are having Stella Lin, the Principal Program Manager of Microsoft Team and the Former Director at Azure Kurbenetes & Application Platform. Stella is now leading the cross-functional team that creates Microsoft Teams' customer care product vision, roadmap strategies and V1 product!!
We've seen how technology takes over the world with each new, cutting-edge discovery! Do you know how VR & AR will change the world? This week, we will be interviewing Matt Apfel, the Head of Special Projects at GameOn Technology and the Former Director of VR & AR at Google!!
As much as food plays a huge role in our life, the food technology industry plays a vital role in making sure we get not only the best quality food, but ensuring the food we produce solves insteads of contributes towards world problems. This week on Changing Reality, we are going to be speaking to Brandon Chong, the CFO and Head of Asia at Rage Capital.
Have you ever wondered how VR and AR work in companies? Do you know that we can design scenarios and training using AR and VR!! This week on Changing Reality we are having Rori DuBoff, the Managing Director at Accenture Interactive. She has pioneering innovative experiences, new business models, products and services from Web 1.0 to the Metaverse! Rori holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. Her expertise also includes innovation planning and management, emerging technologies using Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) and many more!!!
We are featuring Douglas Abrams, the CEO of Expara and Managing Director at Expara Ventures!!!! Expara is Southeast Asia's pioneer and leader in early-stage venture capital and venture services, as well as an experienced provider of acceleration, incubation, entrepreneurship training, and mentorship to start-ups from all around the world.🤯🔥 He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Business School, where he has lectured on New Venture Creation for undergraduates and Technopreneurship for graduate students since 2001.🤩🥳
Ben Relles is the current Head of Innovation of YouTube Originals. Before this role, he was Head of Unscripted Development for YouTube and oversaw films like "This is Everything" featuring Gigi Gorgeous, "Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated" and series such us "Mind Field" from Michael Stevens. Before joining YouTube, Ben himself was a content creator whose YouTube channel, "Barely Political" has now been viewed over 2.5 billion times. We will be featuring Ben Relles on this week's Changing Reality to share with us his journey of navigating his career in the content creation space and the experiences he gained along the way!
This week on Changing Reality, we will be featuring Mathura Kannan, the Co-Founder of the International Youth Movement, Ascendance; and a Junior Director at Simply Empowering! Mathura has always been passionate to guide people in the wide world of finance. Recently, she penned down her experiences and wisdom in her newly published book, "Money Matter$?" which provides a guide for young adults to learn how to effectively manage their finances through real-world experiences.
This week on Changing Reality we have Jose Cil, CEO of Restaurant Brands International. Restaurant Brands International is home to many most-loved restaurant brands globally, such as Burger King, Popeyes and Tim Hortons.
Meet Emmy-Nominated Producer, Marc Lorber, who serves as the Senior Vice President, of International TV Co-Productions and Acquisitions at Lionsgate on this week's episode of Changing Reality! One of the most experienced international content production, acquisitions, formats and programming executives, and an award-winning producer; skilled in conception, acquisition, development, strategic partnerships, and physical production of originals and formats, in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia; as well as Russia, Eastern Europe, Egypt, the UAE and Africa, encompassing the CIS, CEE and MENA regions, amongst the 17 non-English speaking countries Marc has lived and/or worked in.
This week we are interviewing Reed Alexander, currently a Financial Reporter at Business Insider. He primarily reports on investment banks, Wall Street culture, and the life and experiences of young people starting out in the industry. He has broken some of the biggest Wall Street stories of 2021. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and a bachelor's degree from New York University.
This week we will be interviewing Nick Bernstein, Senior Vice President of Late Night Programming (West Coast) at ViacomCBS and is the executive in charge of the Late Late Show with James Corden. Prior to this, he was also the Executive Producer and Co-creator of The Pete Holmes Show on TBS. He also had a 10-year experience working at NBC Entertainment including working on shows with Connon O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon and many more.
This week we will be interviewing Alfred Berkeley, Chairman of Princeton Capital Management and Former President of NASDAQ Stock Market. Princeton Capital Management is a registered investment adviser providing services to high-net-worth individuals and family offices seeking long term appreciation with an emphasis on capital preservation. He is also an Advisor at VIBE Cybersecurity International LLC that is a patented technology that improves standardized Identity-Based Encryption.
This week we will be interviewing Tereza Nemessanyi, Board Member at Microsoft; Global Strategic Alliances. Tereza has 20+ years global experience in technology startups, enterprise innovation, strategic partnerships, digital transformation and investor ecosystems. Technology domains she has worked with, include Cloud, Data/AI, Machine Learning, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Cryptocurrency/Blockchain, Computer Vision and Biocomputation.
This week we will be interviewing Jennifer Valentine, Senior Director of Soccer at Adidas. She has over 15 years of experience in Adidas and the industry. Jennifer seeks challenging opportunities to leverage her strategic thinking, analytical experience and go-to-market understanding to directly impact the business she leads. She enjoys managing people, presenting, being a part of a team and working with products.
This week we will be interviewing Sanjib Sengupta, Vice President of Product Development at Visa. Sanjib leads multiple teams across various geographic locations developing the future platforms and solutions for web and mobile applications for Payment Management, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering & Data Analytics. He also helps innovate and build leading-edge, full-service payment management and fraud management solutions. Sanjib truly enjoys the challenge of being in a leadership position and helping cultivate an environment of change, accountability, innovation and fun.
This week we will be interviewing Saurav Mukherjee, Vice President of Business Transformation at Citi. Saurav's multiple roles at Citi include defining the PMO role and responsibilities across the project phases, discovery process workflow and interaction among stakeholders and many more. He is an Advisor to CXOs, guiding corporations on their journey to digital transformation and is experienced in leveraging data to enable innovation and business creativity. Saurav also manages large enterprise sales engagements & accounts for manufacturing segments in America.
This week we will be interviewing Nandini Nag, Global Business Development and Strategy Principal at Hitachi Vantara and was the Ex-Director of Strategy at Nokia. She is an experienced advisor with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications and hi-tech industry. Skilled in Subscription Licensing, Go-to-Market Strategy, Financial Modelling, Customer Profile Analysis, Operational Analysis, etc.
This week we will be interviewing Edward Boey, the CEO and Web Consultant at Newwave Synchronizer. Newwave builds everything from E-Commerce platforms, Corporate Websites, Mobile Applications and much more. They are a Malaysian based company that leverages on worldwide resources to provide services to organizations and clients all across the globe. They specialize in website and apps development, known for their stellar websites designs, website maintenance and digital marketing.
This week we will be interviewing Thomas Haymore, Vice President, SMB & Acquirer Solutions at Visa where he oversees the packaging, pricing, promotion and overall market success of solutions for small businesses and acquirers, globally. Thomas is experienced in product management and marketing director accustomed to fast-moving environments and agile teams. He is also confident with designing products, coding prototypes, and segmenting acquisition campaigns. Thomas' experience in non-profit and university had shown him the value of teamwork, how to motivate people to hit deadlines and ship products.
This week we will be interviewing Valsala Krishnan, CEO and Culture Shaping Consultant at Globetrotter Consultancy. From achieving a successful career as a regional Finance Director in a multinational company to now running her own company, Globetrotter Consultancy, that creates culture change in the lives of individuals and organizations, she has followed her heart in guiding her to happiness, health and success.
This week we will be interviewing Brandon Hoffman & Antonio Key from Samsung NEXT. Brandon is the Senior Investment Manager in the areas of venture capital, innovation, and strategy. He is an investor at Samsung Next, the software & services venture group, where he focuses on Media & Creators, Fintech & Blockchain, and Health & Wellness. Antonio Key serves as a Director of Venture Investments at Samsung Next. In this role, he works to identify early-stage startups that could enable new software and services revenue streams, facilitate entry into new markets and enhance Samsung’s existing product offerings.
This week we will be interviewing Venu Amar, Chief Operating Officer at Foundry.ai where he helps create, scale and lead AI software companies. His areas of focus lie in strategy, growth, business development, operations, client services, data science and analytics. Venu has worked in a multitude of capacities at both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. He is also an expert in leveraging in-market experimentation (design, analysis, optimization) and customer lifetime value analytics to generate incremental revenue, reduce costs and maximize long-term profitability.
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This week we will be interviewing Anindya Ghose, currently a Professor of Business and Director of the Masters of Science in Business Analytics at NYU Stern Business School. Anindya is the author of the best-selling and multiple award-winning book, TAP: Unlocking The Mobile Economy which has been translated into five languages. He has been retained as an expert witness by Apple, Alibaba, Facebook, Google, Snapchat, Verizon, and Yahoo. Anindya was also named as one of the Top 40 Professors Under 40 Worldwide.
This week we will be interviewing Levent Yarar, the Director of Corporate Partnerships at Wharton Executive Education. Levent is a self-driven and results-focused industry expert with more than 20-year background catalyzing partnerships and generating new enterprises in the marketplace. He is a keen analyst, quick to identify opportunities and resolve complex problems. Levent is also an accomplished team builder who facilitates interdepartmental communications to promote company-wide cooperation, support, and bottom-line growth.
This week we will be interviewing Suresh Raj, who is currently leading global growth for Virtue Worldwide, a Vice Media Group Company with over 20 years of experience in the marketing communications industry. Suresh has a true passion for nurturing and inspiring teams to new business success, developing trusted relationships with clients, and bringing together the best talent to deliver creative inspiring work. His role focuses on multi-country, multi-region and integrated opportunities.
This week we will be interviewing Steven Forth, the Co-Founder and CEO at Ibbaka Performance. Ibbaka is about helping people express their personality (unique value), connects to purpose (the heart) and does so by fueling their creative spark. It is is a social skills platform that gives companies insight into the true skills they have within their organization and across their extended talent networks. Steven focuses on bringing new concepts to market and setting them up to scale through design and decision making frameworks with value management and pricing strategy.
This week we will be interviewing Susan Garfield, who is EY Americas Chief Public Health Officer and Health Sciences and Wellness Sector Commercial Lead. She is an accomplished strategist, consultant, and thought leader who leads the commercial team within EY Life Sciences Consulting and strategy teams. Susan's career in life sciences spans 20 years. Prior to joining EY in 2015, she held various executive positions at consulting firms and life sciences and healthcare companies.
This week we will be interviewing Susan Garfield, who is EY Americas Chief Public Health Officer and Health Sciences and Wellness Sector Commercial Lead. She is an accomplished strategist, consultant, and thought leader who leads the commercial team within EY Life Sciences Consulting and strategy teams. Susan's career in life sciences spans 20 years. Prior to joining EY in 2015, she held various executive positions at consulting firms and life sciences and healthcare companies.
This week we will be interviewing Margaret Lee, currently the Director of User Experience Community and Culture at Google where she leads the Community and Culture programs for Google UX globally. Prior to joining Google nearly ten years ago, she led the Geo UX organization, directly managing the Design Team, and working closely with the cross-functional UX team of researchers, writers, engineers, motion designers, and production designers. Margaret's career also spanned to TiVo as their director of user interface and Yahoo as their director of user experience design.
This week we will be interviewing Lawrence Cole, currently the US Head of Ad Sales for the Mid-Market Multi-Channel and Consumer Goods verticals at Google. An experienced tech GM with skill spikes in sales, operations, marketing and management, his career has spanned several industries and functions at organizations such as Google, UPS, Earthlink, Internet Brands and NASA. Lawrence is a thought leader with a strong bias for action and a penchant for building high-performing, inclusive organizations, who is passionate about bridging access and equity gaps through corporate and non-profit work.
This week we will be interviewing Kim Stonehouse who is currently the Director of Automotive, US. at Facebook. In 2020, Kim was featured as one of the top 100 women in the North American Automotive Industry. She is an expert at leading Facebook's US team in helping automotive marketers get closer to their customers and providing guidance on transforming brands, growing sales, and driving loyalty in a mobile-first world. Kim had gained much experience during her early days at Google where she assisted manufacturers and dealers onboard to ‘Google Search’ for the first time as it was relatively new technology at that time.
This week we will be interviewing Jason Toff, the former Director of Product Management at Facebook where he oversaw teams within their New Product Experimentation team. Jason had gained vast experience during his time as partner at Area 120 at Google as well as when he was Director of Product Management at Twitter. In addition, he was also General Manager at Vine, Product Manager at YouTube and marketing lead for Gmail. Currently, Jason has become an Advisor for Copilot, the best iOS app for tracking your finances + expenses. Tune in with us to hear more about his journey and valuable experiences.
This week we will be interviewing Jason Huang who is currently the Director of Finance at Experian. He has been a finance and strategy business executive with over 15 years of expansive experience including a broad background in technology project management. Jason is also a hands on leader with a coaching style of management that has been successful in effectuating change while building integrity, inclusiveness, and excellence. His industry experience spans media/entertainment, data services, banking, alternative energy, manufacturing, technology, professional services, and telecommunications.
This week we will be interviewing one of the Co-Founders of Breaktime, Connor Schoen. Breaktime is a Boston-based non-profit working to end young adult homelessness through purposeful transitional employment and financial empowerment. Connor is an undergraduate student in Harvard University who was featured under Forbes 30 under 30. After noticing how young adults staying at the shelter wanted to work and learning that stable employment is the most critical factor in achieving stable housing, he and Tony founded Breaktime in 2018 with a mission to break the cycle of young adult homelessness.
This week we will be interviewing Deepanjan De who is currently the Managing Director of Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook. Since joining Facebook in 2012, Deepanjan helped the company make the bold transition to mobile and partnered with some of the largest financial institutions to define best-in-class mobile advertising. During his time as Head of Industry for Financial Services, Deepanjan was responsible to oversee the U.S. financial services industry for Facebook which includes banking, payments, lending, tax and brokerage. He had gained much experience throughout his time as Strategic Consultant at Accenture which primarily focused on developing growth strategies and product development initiatives for Financial Service clients using emerging technologies (i.e. social media, mobile payments, etc.) to prevent commoditization in payments space.
This week we will be interviewing Peter Fader, who has been the Professor of Marketing at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for the last 34 years. His expertise centres around the analysis of behavioural data to understand and forecast customer shopping/purchasing activities. Professor Fader has also authored his book “Customer Centricity: Focus on the Right Customers for Strategic Advantage” and has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Washington Post etc. His work has been published in various leading journals in marketing, statistics, and the management sciences and has received many awards for his teaching and research accomplishments.
In addition to his various roles and responsibilities at Wharton, Professor Fader is the co-founder and director of Theta (www.thetaclv.com), a predictive customer insight firm. He previously co-founded the predictive analytics firm known as Zodiac in 2015, which was acquired by Nike in 2018.
This week we will be interviewing Todd Aronoff, the Ex. Director of Strategic Management at PayPal and Citi who is currently responsible for leading the growth of Stripe’s largest, global customers. Todd is vastly experienced in building and fostering strategic partnerships and has a successful track record in driving product innovation as well as surpassing business objectives. He excels at applying cutting edge techniques that help leading companies maintain dominance in a digital landscape, increasing customer adoption and engagement, and heading projects that consistently exceed targets and serve as a blueprint for continued growth. Tune in with us to learn more about Todd’s hands-on leadership style and goal-orientated focus that helps him thrive and build top performing project teams that consistently deliver, regardless of the business or market challenge.
This week we will be interviewing Connie Cyran, the current Vice President of Merchandising at Zola Inc. Zola is a New York based wedding company that has raised $140 million since its launch in 2013. They are a unique company that is reinventing wedding planning and the registry experience by offering various wedding tools, all in one place such as websites, invitations etc. They are also recognised for their compassionate customer service with a shared goal to make wedding planning as delightful as the wedding itself. Tune in with us to hear more about Connie’s journey and experience at Zola as well as how they managed to remain a success and maintain a positive culture in this area despite the current pandemic.
This week we will be interviewing Cecilia Leung, a highly experienced professional in Global Partnerships for Amazon Business Payments. Her vast experience in global roles managing multinational products and projects had equipped her to lead global, cross-organizational teams to develop and implement new, client-oriented solutions. In addition, Cecilia has over 15 years of experience in product development and innovation, product management, marketing, relationship management and decision analytics in the financial services industry with a focus on digital payments, e-commerce, mobile commerce and social media.
This week we will be interviewing Shomy Hasan Chowdhury, a multi-award winning Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) activist from Bangladesh, with a vision to ensure access to clean water and sanitation for all. Shomy is also the Co-Founder of global youth-led org Awareness 360 and is a Featured Honoree of Forbes 30 under 30. She has received much recognition for her social work of over a decade, notably the President’s Volunteer Service Award (Gold) in 2012 from President Barack Obama for her outstanding contribution to community service. Shomy is also the first and only Bangladeshi to have been awarded with the 2019 Princess Diana Legacy Award for her humanitarian work continuing Princess Diana’s legacy.
In this episode, Roxanne Berardinelli, the Executive Director at Disney ABC Television Group, shares with us the secrets and stories that the data behind your favourite shows tell us.
Roxanne is highly experienced in utilizing data to provide strategic recommendations to senior business leaders. In addition to her highly effective speaking and presentation skills, she is also passionate about understanding consumers and their connections with content and brands.
This week we will be interviewing Dano Falk, who is the Founder and MD of Lxory & DefDevice. His fascination with creative technology, music, and design as a child had led him to becoming one of the most creative entrepreneurs who had followed his passion to venture into new territories off the beaten paths. Dano has assisted the future growth of many businesses through his creativity in implementing tailor-made strategies and digital marketing solutions. He is also an expert at social media marketing, web and graphic design and sound engineering.
This week we speak with Erica Hendry. the Managing Editor of Digital at the PBS NewsHour. She is a multi-platform journalist with experience in breaking news reporting, digital and long-form storytelling, video producing and editing, social media management and audience engagement. Erica shares with us her experiences in growing from the editor of her college newspaper to the successful figure in the media industry she is today and the various experiences that sharpened her skills along the way.
This week we will be interviewing Sharat Shroff, the General Manager of Microsoft Search and Intelligence. Sharat had previously managed Bing and worked on integrating the commerce platforms of Xbox 360 and Xbox Live service. Sharat was also the Director of Alexa for Business at Amazon in 2017, where he launched, drove strategy and brought the product to market. Tune in to listen how he played an integral role at Microsoft, Google, Amazon over the course of his career and the lessons he learned along the way as he shares about the importance of applying the knowledge we learn and shares tips on how to refine ideas.
This episode features Joshua Frank, the Director of Employee Relations at Amazon on how he integrates his lessons from law and HR to create high-performing global teams. Do listen to his amazing journey and how he unpacks the importance of emotional intelligence in maximising performance.
In a world where a majority of businesses have had to close down in the last 12 months alone and with data showing that 60% of business closures due to the pandemic are now permanent, many of us have to face a new reality ahead. This episode features Nison Chan, co-founder of We The People, the largest physical chain of stores in the world to only retail crowdfunding products, who shares with us his journey of weathering the story of the Covid-19 pandemic, having to cease the business operations of We The People, and the many grueling and inspiring challenges that 2020 held for him – all while showing us how he bounced back from each and every setback.
Nison Chan is also an Associate Business Development Partner at SEED Ventures. SEED Ventures is S.E.E.D Ventures (SV) is a venture capital fund management (VCFM) company that invests in start-ups seeking their first investments (seed funding).
This week we meet Ben Orthlieb, the VP of Corporate Development of LinkedIn and co-founder of the angel investing firms, 2.12 Angels and Off the Grid Ventures. Having had a successful career in investment banking, angel investing and management consulting, Ben shares not only the elements that helped him grow in his career but also sheds light on his philosophy towards work and life that has helped him achieve the successes he has had.
As part of our International Women’s Day Special, we interviewed Joanna Baptista, multi-award winning social entrepreneur and founder of the social enterprise, She alongside Mathura, the CEO and co-founder of Ascendance who received the Diana Award 2019. These two strong, female leaders on the good things about being a woman and how the work that they do continues to inspire and empower other young girls around the world.