SaaSOps Leaders With David Politis

In this week's episode, BetterCloud's CEO David Politis and Braze's Co-founder and CTO Jon Hyman discuss the journey that led Jon to become Braze's Co-founder and CTO (1:15, how IT can ensure that it's aligned with stakeholders across the company (8:06), the challenge of selecting the right technologies for your organization (17:55), and why Jon is excited about the future of digital whiteboarding tools over the next 10 years (29:32).

Justin Dean BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Justin Dean, CIO and CTO at Weedmaps. Dean discusses the journey that led him to his current hybrid role (1:16), the challenge of identifying the right internal tools while also creating best-in-class products for customers (20:10), how he views IT as an enabler of the entire business (27:28), and the advice he'd give to anyone beginning their career in IT (40:23). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Ben Silber, VP of Information Technology and Security at 605. Silber reflects on his journey into executive leadership (4:15), how he finds the “low hanging fruit” that enables his teams to be more strategic (10:14), how he relies heavily on automation to deliver a best-in-class employee experience (17:43), and his predictions for the future of workplace technology (28:51). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Johan Dowdy, Global Head of IT and IT Security at Asana. Dowdy discusses the biggest changes in IT he's seen over the last few years (3:06), how IT can build trust with stakeholders across the entire org (9:10), the traits he looks for when he builds IT teams (13:12), how he chooses which SaaS applications are available to employees (21:13), and some of his predictions for the future of work and IT (37:35). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Matt Diamond, CIO at Secureworks. Diamond shares how he got the organization to support a digital transformation (6:27), how he honed his skills to be able to do his job today (13:34), how he navigated his career opportunities and ultimately moved into executive leadership (15:33), and how IT automation dramatically improved the speed at which his team can respond to tickets successfully (18:28). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Mindy Lieberman, VP of Enterprise Systems at Peloton. Lieberman reflects on why she shifted from academics to IT (2:29), what's changed most about the role of IT since she began her career (8:00), where and how she finds candidates for her team (14:38), why “success” means that IT should be invisible (20:09), and how IT should be a partner to the entire business (29:46). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Ashley Sprague, Senior Director of IT and Corporate Engineering at GitHub. Sprague discusses how she shifted to IT after pursuing a career as an EMT (1:27), IT's leading role in delivering a best-in-class employee experience (8:56), what she looks for in candidates as she builds a modern IT team (18:33), and the future of SaaS as it proliferates through our organizations (26:45).

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Craig Holland, a widely respected security and infrastructure executive and thought leader. Holland shares how he has stayed ahead of the curve with SaaS (6:05), how he ensures that his work is aligned with revenue-driving initiatives (23:56), his views on the future of SaaS (32:50), and the advice he'd give to his younger self (38:48). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

Over the first few weeks of this podcast, it's become abundantly clear that some of the world's most influential IT leaders are approaching their jobs differently to enable business growth. This week, we're revisiting how each of our first seven guests align their teams' goals to the entire organization's strategy—and how they're creating a unique competitive advantage by serving as strategic business partners.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Eric Tan, CIO at Coupa. Tan shares his thoughts on the evolution of IT (6:09), how he prioritizes his work based on larger business needs (10:58), why the most stubborn legacy companies have been forced to embrace SaaS (28:22), and his advice for IT automation at scale (37:16). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Van Richardson, Head of Information Technology at iManage. Richardson reflected on how drastically the technology at our fingertips has shifted (3:01), how he builds a high-performing IT organization, (11:40), what has changed for his team since the beginning of the pandemic (15:50), and how IT (and automation) impacts every interaction across an organization (25:15). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Tim Maffei, Vice President of Information Technology at EVERFI. Maffei shared how SaaS made it “unnervingly” easy to go remote at the beginning of the pandemic (5:12), how drastically IT has changed since he began his career (11:55), how IT's role can (and should) impact the entire business (21:46), and how he approaches IT automation (39:44). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Rick Heil, Vice President of Technology at MERGE. They talk about how his drive-time radio and Apple Retail experience helped him land his first job in IT (3:15), the challenges of acquiring a company and moving from O365 to Google Workspace during the pandemic (22:16), and how much SaaS has changed things in the years since Heil ran a mail server on a single Mac Pro (38:15). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Marques Stewart, vice president of technology at Achievement First. They talk about how Stewart interviewed for and landed his first job in IT over Skype before remote work dominated the world (4:06), the unique challenges of reimagining the school experience during the pandemic (10:26), and how automation enables his team to deliver a best-in-class experience to a network of over 15,000 students (32:39). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

BetterCloud CEO David Politis talks with Colin McCarthy, Vice President of Global IT at Essence. They talk about how SaaS enabled the organization to transition to remote work during the pandemic (10:50), how McCarthy ensures that IT's goals tie to broader business goals (20:30), and why McCarthy believes that future IT job candidates will want to know about your SaaS stack (28:01). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.

On the first episode of his new podcast, David Politis talks with Tommy Donnelly, Chief Information Officer at BetterCloud. They talk about Donnelly's career growth and how he almost automated himself out of a job (2:28), how to build an ecosystem that supports a variety of apps and enables IT to manage them in one place (10:48), and why Donnelly's top priorities are taking automation to the next level and making data even more accessible to employees (19:06). To learn more about how BetterCloud can help you discover, manage, and secure your SaaS apps, please visit www.bettercloud.com. To learn more about SaaSOps, please visit www.saasops.com.