HUMANITY Podcast

Mark Fischer-Colbrie is the President and CEO of Strateos. Strateos, Inc. is the merged company of Transcriptic and 3Scan. Strateos combines large-scale automation and lab software control of compound formulation and assay testing integrated with direct web access and novel technology for high throughput tissue handling and three-dimensional digitizing of tissue in ways that have never previously been achieved for the advancement of drug discovery, synthetic biology, and other applications.Mark is also a board member of the Analytical, Life Science, and Diagnostic Association. ALDA is an outstanding industry association composed of over 100 companies at the CEO and Division President level. Members include Danaher, Agilent, Thermo Fisher, Waters, Bruker, former GE Healthcare, and others.For more information, feel free to get in touch directly with Kevin Castle here at https://humanitypodcast.com/.

Van West is the Founder of Vocalytics. Vocalytics is the most powerful enterprise-grade voice and sound analytics platform built for the physical world. Retailers, Healthcare, and Hospitality facilities trust Vocalytics to turn "dead air" into actionable intelligence.He is also the Founding Member of the Open Voice Network. The Open Voice Network is a neutral, non-profit industry association dedicated to developing the standards and ethical use guidelines to make voice worthy of user trust. It operates as a directed fund of The Linux Foundation and is independently funded and governed.For more information, feel free to get in touch directly with Kevin Castle here at https://humanitypodcast.com/.

Saranathan Govindarajan serves as the Head of Mixed Play Engineering, and Chief Architect of Mattel, Inc. Mattel empowers the next generation to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential.He has been part of multiple transformations across Media, Consumer goods, telecommunications, and varied scenarios - one that is driven by astronomical growth and the current assignment at Mattel powering technology transformation in support of the massive business transformation.For more information, feel free to get in touch directly with Kevin Castle here at https://humanitypodcast.com/.

Mark Schwartz is an Enterprise Strategist at Amazon Web Services. He works with senior executives from the world's largest enterprises to formulate strategies and overcome impediments to moving into the digital age.He is also a published author of the books called The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy and War and Peace and IT.For more information, feel free to get in touch directly with Kevin Castle here at https://humanitypodcast.com/.

Alfred Miranda is the Chief Information Officer at Acreage Holdings. Acreage Holdings is a business innovation through technology, including developing new go-to-market strategies and technologies, strengthening its IT infrastructure, establishing IT/IS policies, methods, systems, and standards delivering a state of the art portfolio.He is a Dynamic and goal-oriented C-level individual with over 16 years of technology experience, most of it in large project implementation and senior leadership. For more information, feel free to get in touch directly with Kevin Castle here at https://humanitypodcast.com/.

Todd Teta is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at ATTOM Data Solutions. A functional leader of the company's product and technology organizations, driving organic revenue growth and efficiency through product strategy, product development, and technology.Todd has worked in start-up, high-growth, and extensive company environments driving product and technology planning efforts for the past 20 years.For more information, feel free to get in touch directly with Kevin Castle here at https://humanitypodcast.com/.

Mike Gentile is the Founder, President, and CEO of CISOSHARE. Since inception, he has led the company to become a global leader in security program services and solutions headquartered in San Clemente, CA.Mike is passionate about helping our communities through innovative approaches based on the learning and teaching method applied at CISOSHARE.For more information, feel free to get in touch directly with Kevin Castle here at Humanity Podcast.

Carey Ransom is the Founder and President of Operate. Operate is a venture studio that invests capital and a world-class team into product-centric entrepreneurs building data-centric software companies. Operate is also a weekly show & podcast to highlight global innovators, entrepreneurs & investors.Carey is also an investor, advisor, and board member in a few entrepreneurial entities. He continually inspires people to be better entrepreneurs and build innovative companies that help solve big problems affecting our community.Feel free to reach out to Carey Ransom on LinkedIn. For more information, feel free to get in touch directly with Kevin Castle here at Humanity Podcast.

Robert Santana is the CEO at Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Orange Coast. Their mission is to promote the positive and healthy development of youth, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, by providing services that build the skills, civility and self-confidence necessary to succeed in a competitive world.Robert will speak about health development and how important this is. He will speak about Boys & Girls Clubs how they are proudly serving the youth and families of Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Newport Beach, & Orange.You can reach Robert Santana at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Orange Coast. You can always speak to Robert to figure out ways to partner up together to help the local youth.

Scott Sandland is the Founder and CEO of Cyrano.ai. Cyrano.ia innovates intelligent sales agents that influence through conversation.Cyrano.ai has a patent pending system and unique approach to building and training AI based digital agents.We will learn more on what Scott and his team do over Cyrano and give a lot of insights in Artificial Intelligence. There are tons of wonderful insights that can be taken away from this episode such as facilitation perspective and so much more.If you want to know more about Cyrano.ai, feel free to reach out to Humanity podcast or visit Cyrano.ai website at https://cyrano.ai/.

Scott Sandland is a thought leader in Artificial Empathy, contributing to best selling books on AI and speaking on the subject at the United Nations AI for Good Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. With over 20 years experience as a clinical hypnotherapist, Scott is an internationally recognized expert in subliminal motivation strategies and a member of the board of directors and Life Fellow for the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association. He has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, Psychology Today, Forbes, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Scott is the co-founder and CEO of Cyrano.ai, a natural language understanding system that improves human:computer communication and trains people and machines in improved soft-skills related to active listening techniques he honed in his private clinical practice. Cyrano.ai, and Scott, are dedicated to building a digital therapist that can be given freely to every at risk teen in America. They are currently rolling out tools in the sales enablement, Med-tech, and legal verticals to give actionable insights to people working in high-value customer facing interactions. 

Brian Mulix Bio: As a director overseeing large distributed teams on matrixed projects for clients across industry verticals, I have been instrumental in optimizing team structures and project management methodologies in line with client objectives. I am responsible for hiring and engaging the right resources to deliver value for every client, and for overseeing and ensuring the quality of every project executed by my team.My personal success is fueled by my ability to quickly drill down into client businesses to identify critical needs, define requirements, and establish short-term/long-range digital platform strategy aligned with client objectives.The success of my teams is fueled by the people who live and breath the day-to-day development and analysis work – I believe I cannot succeed unless the people who report to me are empowered to succeed, and I enthusiastically engage as a coach/mentor.I have delivered multiple digital platform initiatives and continue to act as a valued partner in devising systems and architecture in an Agile development environment. The initiatives I have led cover a wide variety of business objectives, notably including AI-based data analysis, scalable offshore development models, and identity store vendor evaluation and integration.In prior roles at Accenture, Hitachi Consulting, and Slalom consulting, I gained broad experience as project manager, business analyst, and Scrum master for business transformation, marketing automation, CRM implementation and other major projects. Career highlights include:▶︎ AI Implementation: Directed a 2-year program to build an AI prediction engine that performs pattern analysis on millions of publicly available records, in service of combating childhood sexual abuse.▶︎ Digital Platform Strategy: Devised engagement framework, staffing model, and project methodology for portal transformation to support significant inorganic growth.▶︎ Offshore Development: Deployed offshore development methodologies and processes to provide a highly efficient, scalable team for multiple client initiatives.▶︎ MS Dynamics CRM: Defined change framework and governance for custom CCB models and managed Scrum activities for ongoing development.LinkedIn builds great connections. Reach out here or ✆: 703.889.6089 |

Welcome to another episode of the [HUMANITY] Podcast hosted by Kevin Castle. Join us for today's episode as we sit down with Alan Lubitz the former CIO of Mercury Insurance Group and current Senior Industry Fellow/Lecturer at University of California, Irvine. for more information please visit: https://humanitypodcast.com

Welcome to another episode of the [HUMANITY] Podcast hosted by Kevin Castle. Join us for today's episode as we sit down with Alan Lubitz the former CIO of Mercury Insurance Group and current Senior Industry Fellow/Lecturer at University of California, Irvine. for more information please visit: https://humanitypodcast.com

Brett Howard is the Chief Information Officer in the Orange Country Superior Court. Brett Howard is an experienced and dynamic IT executive with over 28 years of experience applying technology solutions to business challenges. Passionate about using my strengths in leadership, team building, and project management to lead teams in the successful delivery of exciting projects.If you are looking for careers in the Orange County Superior Court, please visit their LinkedIn as this is the best place they are posting work. Check out more episodes of the Humanity Podcast at https://humanity-podcast.simplecast.com/.

Neil Sahota (萨冠军) is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations (UN) Artificial Intelligence (AI) subject matter expert, and Professor at UC Irvine.With 20+ years of business experience, Neil works to inspire clients and business partners to foster innovation and develop next generation products/solutions powered by AI.Neil’s work experience spans multiple industries including legal services, healthcare, life sciences, retail, travel and transportation, energy and utilities, automotive, telecommunications, media/communication, and government. Moreover, he is one of the few people selected for IBM’s Corporate Service Corps leadership program that pairs leaders with NGOs to perform community-driven economic development projects. For his assignment, Neil lived and worked in Ningbo, China where he partnered with Chinese corporate CEOs to create a leadership development program.In addition, Neil partners with entrepreneurs to define their products, establish their target markets, and structure their companies. He is a member of several investor groups like the Tech Coast Angels and assists startups with investor funding. Neil also serves as a judge in various startup competitions and mentor in several incubator/accelerator programs.He actively volunteers with nonprofits for event management, fund raising, grant reviews, and site visits. Neil is an active member of the UCI Alumni Association and serves on the Board of Directors for the Orange County Marathon, supporting their work with the OC Kids program in fighting childhood obesity.