Wharton Executive Education Podcast

Chris Malabver is a Corporate Banking Professional with more than 14 years of experience focused on Debt Solutions and Treasury Management through application of solid Risk Assessment principles and techniques using extensive product knowledge, diverse execution strategies and structuring approaches. In this episode, host Alex Gramatzki asks Chris about what risk assessments look like from a bank perspective and how that risk can be managed.

Sanjay Phadke has spent many years in the banking sector and is a fintech specialist, HealthTech mentor, and Author. In the latest episode we dive into his latest project with Breath Ai. There are some very interesting and useful take aways when it comes to breathing and how it relates to stress, anxiety and depression.

Ashish Saxena is President at Innova Solutions where he works on delivering complex technology products for companies. Ashish has worked at multiple companies that have experienced exponential growth. From those experiences Ashish, has seen what it takes to build empires. In the episode we dive into how to look at acquisitions and other ways companies can grow.

Michael Brouillet has over 20 years of experience in leading technology and business teams and is a passionate and visionary executive who strives to create innovative solutions that align with the strategic goals and values of Credit Human. As the Chief Business Systems Officer, he oversees the entire technology portfolio, managing multiple teams that support various business functions, such as lending, deposits, operations, digital, HR, finance, and risk.

Dr. Charles Theofilos, a renowned spinal surgeon whose expertise extends beyond the operating room. Known for his work with PGA players and countless individuals seeking relief and recovery, Dr. Theofilos's commitment to excellence has positioned him as a leading authority in spinal health. His meticulous attention to detail and keen business sense have paved the way for groundbreaking advancements in medical technology. With an impressive portfolio of patents to his name, Dr. Theofilos has leveraged his medical insights to spearhead innovations that promise to revolutionize patient care. Transitioning from performing life-changing spinal procedures on thousands of patients to impacting millions worldwide through technology, Dr. Theofilos's story is one of passion, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of making a global difference in healthcare.

Horacio Zambrana leads an executive team and is responsible for attracting, onboarding, and retaining top talent for a $200B public pension fund for the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Previously he was Head of Talent Development at Cupertino Electric and before that he was Sr. Talent Development at Cisco Systems. Horacio has incredible experience when it comes to navigating the complexities of talent within an organization. In this episode we dive into the importance of culture and how people with different personalities can excel in their roles within one cohesive company culture.

In this episode, I have a chance to talk to Jonathan Anastas who is CEO of Clash TV and was formerly the CMO at One Esports. As part of his career journey, he had a chance to market iconic games like Guitar Hero at Activision Blizard and launch new games like Call of Duty.

Rahul Chadha has worked his way to the top of finance and was Chief Investment Officer at Mirae Asset Global Investments and is now launching his own fund. Rahul has learned many lessons along the way when it comes to evaluating companies and his team has consistently outperformed benchmark returns. In this episode we dive into what Rahul looks at when evaluating companies.

Kevin Annett is CFO, (North America) of Barrick Gold and in this episode we dive into the gold markets and his career path to becoming CFO of one of the worlds most renowned gold firms.

Trish Skoglund is Corporate Director of Mergers and Acquisitions of Crowley. At Crowley she is responsible for the full cycle of M&A, including targeting-sourcing of new opportunities, coordinating the diligence process internally and with external service providers (including for capital raises), execution of the deals through signing and closing, and development of initial integration plans. She also source and manage the full cycle of venture investments for Crowley Ventures.

Abhishek Agarwal is the President of the Judge Group India, a TedX speaker and the author of the book The 3I Effect. In this episode we dive into how Mr. Agarwal went from starting his career in India to now being able to work on some of the most innovative projects for Fortune 500 companies. TedX Talk: youtube.com/watch?v=MXsID_wdT6c&t=2s LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/abhishekhapur/ The 3I Effect Book: agarwalabhishek.com

William “Billy” Greineisen, Ph.D. is a Wharton trained executive/alumni with experience as a successive award-winning entrepreneur, scientist, and Fortune 50 corporate strategist. Billy went from Academia and being a scientist to being an entrepreneur. After his time as an entrepreneur, Billy went onto being a Fortune 50 corporate strategist.

Marc Radasky is Managing Partner of Clarity Capital. The company provides frictionless capital to private companies that want to grow. There are multiple criteria that Marc will look at when it comes to making investment decision and, in this episode, we dive into what is important.

Naren Balasubramaniam is a healthcare executive and entrepreneur with 23 years of expertise leading and supporting business and service delivery transformations, strategy and business development, growth, and product development across multiple functional domains in health systems across the country. His passion centers around creating and sustaining societal good and public benefit by creating commercially viable products and solutions. Specifically, he is now looking at solutions for children struggling with mental health.

Brad Flaugher has been working on AI projects since 2008 and is now a AI and Machine Learning Educator. He authored the book AI Harmony and is an Advisor to the seed capital fund NextFab Ventures where he gets into the technical diligence of AI startups.   Brad shares how ChatGPT and AI are already at a place where we should not be waiting for the user experience to get better. The time to implement AI is now and those that do not will get beat by their competition. There are some basic things people will need to learn in order to benefit from the powers that AI has to offer. We get into the resources that are available to all of us in order to benefit from the magic that AI has to offer.   Some resources Brad recommends are: The AI Harmony Book by Brad Flaugher The bootcamp he offers on bradflaugher.com Rewired – Book by McKinsey oneusefulthing.org

Manuel Gallegos is the Managing Partner of MG Global Consulting Group. Manuel now lives in Argentina but previously had a corporate career in finance in New York. In New York, he would live and breath finance and he took his expertise to start his own Consulting Company. MG Global Consulting does consulting in M&A and project management for several companies. This conversation dives into the path Manuel took to start his own Global Consulting firm. The company website is www.mg-globalconsulting.com

Davinder has a track record of transforming Fortune 500 and midsize organizations across healthcare, education, financial, and insurance industries to achieve scalability and growth. He has broad multi-industry experience in digital strategy, product innovation, and advanced analytics to grow the customer base, increase customer lifetime value, and achieve operational excellence. His experience has allowed him to see what companies are working on and what might be coming next. In this episode we will talk about purpose built companies and how companies in the future might reach a billion valuation with only 1 employee as a result of the assistance of generative AI. Davinder Kohli is currently Cief Digital Officer at Creospan Inc and Board Member of the Sikh Human Development Foundation Inc. Prior to this he was also a co-founder Xent Studios. At Xent he launched an omnichannel SaaS retail platform to help home improvement brick-and-mortar retailers increase customer conversation and reduce the sales cycle by showcasing products in virtual spaces using an in-store HTC VR station. Xent was nvited to the World Economic Forum 2018, Tianjin, China, to discuss how VR reshapes brick-and-mortar retailers.

Dr. Anil Sharma has performed over 80,00 spinal procedures and changed the lives of many people. His brilliance however does not stop at medical procedures. He has a gift when it comes to multiple choice testing as he sees things differently. He discovered this gift at a young age and was able to make the most of it. After growing his medical practice in New Jersey and New York with the Spine & Pain Centers, he took some of his proceeds and started the hedge fund "Third Eye Capital Management". So how does a Spinal Doctor also end up being a hedge fund manager? Check out this episode and find out.

Deepak Rana grew up in India and moved around India in his youth. When he later moved to Tokyo, Japan, he was entrenched in a culture that was very respectful and placed value on details. Deepak, worked on various complex transformation projects for institutions like the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and others. When moving to the United States, Deepak recognized how the culture within a country can vary which helped him with his post-merger integration work. Deepak has 21+ years of experience of successfully securing and leading complex, large-scale, multiyear, multimillion dollar (over $90 million budget) “global business transformation programs” enabled by SAP S/4HANA & ECC, Ariba, Coupa, Curam, and other ERPs.

Michael Wolf served at the U.S. Navy for 14 years and ultimately ended up being a Lieutenant Commander, Senior Reginal Flight Surgeon. After his tenure at the U.S Navy he was recruited by the Mayo Clinic to be a Consultant and Assistant Professor of Medicine. The Department of Defense is the executive branch of the US federal government and one of the largest global employers. While at the U.S. Navy, Michael published a white paper which ended up persuading the Director of the Defense Health Agency and U.S. Navy Surgeon General to change and improve the health insurance policy for 2.15 million Department of Defense beneficiaries. The Mayo Clinic is one of the most renowned medical institutions in the world attracting people from all over the world that are looking for an expert opinion when it comes to medical care. Michael spends a lot of time on complex projects for the institutions he works on tackling projects that are in the billions of dollars.

In this episode the CEO of Navigating Grey, Irvine Sloan dives into the complexities and challenges companies have with navigating sustainability and social impact. It can often be easier for a company to make a donation and write a check but there are other ways to engage stakeholders when it comes to sustainability and social impact. The company Navigating Grey has experience in this specific area and dives into how a company can have a more impactful impact that its stakeholders want to be involved with. Listen to the episode and learn more at navigating-grey.com

Alex Martinez is CEO of iTissue and a Strategic Advisor to VALTICS. iTissue is in the business of 3D Printing Bioengineered Tissue to Increase the speed of health care tests. They do this by 3D printing the tissue cells that a drug would be exposed to if ingested and then observing the reactions that those tissues have. By initially testing new drugs on 3D printed tissue it makes it easier to see which tissues are reacting to the new drugs and it should also reduce the amount of animal and human testing. VALTICS is a VaaS boutique firm that offers a platform and framework to assist companies with enterprise value creation, ROI, and value proposition, enabling solution value selling and value engineering to accelerate their revenue and time to profit.

Jose Villarreal is partner at the global law firm Baker Botts, and he is based in Austin Texas. In this conversation we dive into intellectual property, patents, trade secrets and how people have tried to patent outputs from artificial intelligence.

Nafeez Amin is a Co-Founder of Smart with a Heart which is a non-profit that helps people with their admissions process by providing live instruction, office hours, mentoring, and admissions advice. One of the most incredible things the company has to offer is that their instructors are all in the 99th percentile and they all need personal skills making them very sought after talent. Nafeez was one of those kids that took the SATs for the first time when he was 12 and thought of it as a game and realized there is a method to how these tests are structured. In the conversation we get into what people should know when preparing for admissions and how Smart with a Heart has helped thousands of people with their admissions.

Jovelle Fernandez has lived in 5 different countries and travelled to over 50 countries. She has over 20 years experience in health care and has now written a book called "The Expat" all while developing a oral cancer drug that has had Stage 1 fully funded by the Japanese government.

In this episode, we dive into investing in music royalties with Alex Gramatzki who is Co-President of Crescendo Royalty Corp and an Advisor to the ICM Crescendo Music Royalty Fund. We dive into forecasting future cash flows in the music industry, how revenue is collected and where revenue is collected from and why music royalties are a interesting asset class to invest into.

Peyman A. Nejad has been involved with some of the most iconic buildings in the world such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the World Trade Center 2 in New York. In this episode we dive into what makes building these massive and iconic buildings a unique challenge and how someone even ends up on this career path.

Adriana Muñoz went from nurse, to medtech executive, to investor, Adriana shares her next move, Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition. You will hear her thoughts on the advantages of job training in a family owned business and her passion for gender equality. #wharton #whartonexeced #ETA #healthcare #founderstories #mexicobusiness #genderequality #genderpaygap #hbaimpact

A hospital has many assets that are needed in order to generate revenue for a hospital. Even though patients drive the revenue, the hospital needs assets such as cardiologist, MRI machines, beds, laptops, syringes, and so much more to generate revenue. Managing all the assets of a hospital is complex and that is where Pycube, Inc comes in as Asset & Item Chain Management Solution. In this episode, Alex Gramatzki is interviewing the CEO and Founder of Pycube, Srikar Yeruva.

In this episode of the Wharton Alumni Executive Education podcast, Alex Gramatzki (Host) will be interviewing Brian Garish. Brian is the President of Mars Veterinary Health International, the world's largest provider of veterinary care. The interview will cover the "people strategy" as a business strategy. How inclusive leadership impacts people, society, and leads to best business results.

Kevin Schimelfenig has build his net worth to a point where he had to establish the McGeever Family Office where he is also the Managing Partner. His role is to make sure the family grows the money faster than the family can spend it. In this episode Alex Gramatzki will be asking Kevin about how he grew his wealth and what lessons he has learned along the way. The show notes are below: 0:46 - What is a Family Office? 6:08 – Instilling values and teaching your children to be successful 8:50 – Kevins path to success as 1 of 10 kids 15:01 – The youngest of 10 siblings 20:31 – What is it like to be dyslexic? 23:35 – 4 Types of Intelligence 27:05 – How do you make investment decisions? 35:45 – How do you measure success?

In this episode the Tamas Hevizi shares insights on what he learned about digital value creation and what it was like working at companies like Deloitte, Ernst & Young, SAP, and now Automation Anywhere.

In this episode Jan Havel, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of ACTUM Digital talks about what it is like working with clients that have hundreds of years of history and what he has learned from working with those clients. Jan was also recently featured in Forbes and he has a doctorate from the Prague University of Economics and Business. See the show note below: 1:06 – What does ACTUM Digital do? 3:33 – Serving clients with 50 to 250 years of operating history 8:20 – How to pass on values of the founders 12:40 – Why can values survive in a company but not in a democracy? 23:20 – Hiring expensive people does not mean they are good fit for the company 29:40 – Finding the right people to take your company to the next level 33:45 – The two best questions to ask to determine if someone will be a good leader

In this episode, Alexander Gramatzki talks to CEO, Andrew Davies about how he built and incentivized his team at SPOL (a higher education software company) so it was ready to be sold. Andrew dives into lessons he learned along the way, important skills he to master, and obstacles he has overcome.

On this episode of the Wharton Alumni Executive Education Podcast, host Peter Bartek sits down with Pan Partners' President and Founder Peyman Nejad to discuss the future of tall buildings in the United States.

On the first episode of the Wharton Alumni Executive Education Podcast, host Peter Bartek sits down with Muny LLC's President and Founder Tip Powers to discuss a way for people to save tons of money but utilizing the tax benefits of Puerto Rico.

Coming this May, join Co-President GMP/AFP of the Wharton Alumni Executive Education Club, Peter Bartek, as he hosts the all-new Wharton Alumni Executive Education Podcast. On the show, he'll talk to top business executives from all over the world in a wide variety of industries about business news, tips and trends. You don't want to miss it!