Podcast appearances and mentions of eli fathi

In episode 64, Eli Fathi shares why every team should be structured and what an unstructured team looks like. Eli Fathi is a passionate leader with over 43 years of experience in companies including Telexis, OrbitIQ, Fluidware, Mindbridge. In this episode, Eli explains the difference between leading with carrots versus leading with sticks and why leaders should eat last. We also talk about Eli's leadership style of leading from the front and what it means to have an ‘eyes on, hands off' approach to managing. Tune in to hear all about Eli's impressive entrepreneurship career that has led him to co-found seven startups.

In this special episode, we pulled nuggets and discussions from three of our previous episodes with Christy Soukhamneut, Gregg Jorritsma and Eli Fathi    Christy Soukhamneut is a 20+ year veteran of the mortgage industry who is dedicated to turning possibility into reality.  A gifted strategic thinker, she knows that you must cut through the clutter, clearly articulate the vision, and then rally support at the street level.   Everything she does is evaluated against these three bars: Will it make your life easier?  Will it help you & your team be more productive? Will it help you grow your business?   Gregg Jorritsma has been in leadership roles with some of the most well-known companies in the industry including Citrix, BlackBerry, Bell Mobility, Siebel and Delrina. A passionate advocate for “informed selling” and sales professionalism, Gregg credits his success to having been mentored and coached by some great people that took the time to help him on his journey.    Eli Fathi is CEO at MindBridge Ai, developer of the world’s first auditing tool based upon artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies – Ai Auditor – to uncover errors in financial data. Eli has been a technology entrepreneur for over 30 years, having founded or co-founded many successful technology companies. Eli was recognized as the 2018 AI Leader of the Year by the Digital Finance Institute and is a prolific speaker, including talks at the AICPA, Startup Canada Day on the Hill, and TEDx.   WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE: Top mistakes salespeople make all the time  The rise and meaning of AI salesperson Why there is no such thing as ‘natural’ salesperson How to help salespeople see something within themselves that is just below the surface What to do to get people to take you seriously     SHOW NOTES [00:24] Introduction to this episode [02:22] Welcome  [01:55] Business success stories that inspire our guests [02:08] “The story of Febreze” [03:39] “Resilience in the face of adversity”  [04:48] “Jim Estill story” [07:58] How they all got into sales [11:04] Their favourite sales failure [13:34] Mistakes salespeople make and how to avoid them [15:06] The mortgage industry... [16:09] Why there is no such thing as ‘natural’ salesperson [16:38] Be wary of multinational companies... [17:38] Sales and rejections [18:03] The rise of Artificial intelligence [19:05] Stories that excite their customers [21:09] AI as a threat to salespeople?  [22:36] Challenges facing today’s sales leaders  [26:30] The art of storytelling   You can listen to the individual episodes here: Christy Soukhamneut, “Logic and data can only take you so far, Story is where we really connect,”  Gregg Jorritsma, “Don’t Outsell Your Competitors, Out Question Them,”  Eli Fathi, “Why AI won’t Replace (Top) Salespeople.”

Many sectors, naturally, have their own notions of leadership, but the best leaders adhere to two simple but strong principles: transparency and integrity. Amy Vetter interviews Eli Fathi, the CEO of MindBridge. Eli shares his journey from living in a one-bedroom home with his siblings, grandma, and parents in Israel to coming to Canada to begin his career journey. Learn how his upbringing shaped his success as a leader to be transparent and always put integrity first.

Many sectors, naturally, have their own notions of leadership, but the best leaders adhere to two simple but strong principles: transparency and integrity. Amy Vetter interviews Eli Fathi, the CEO of MindBridge. Eli shares his journey from living in a one-bedroom home with his siblings, grandma, and parents in Israel to coming to Canada to […]

This episode of the Make the Future podcast on equity, diversity and inclusion features: Dr. Jacques Beauvais, host of the Make the Future podcast, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa, uOttawa alumnus, Master’s ʾ87 and Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics ʾ85 Thusha Agampodi, co-host, Engineering Manager at Magnet Forensics Leah MacMillan, Chief Marketing Officer at Trend Micro Eli Fathi, CEO of MindBridge Ai, uOttawa alumnus, Master’s ʾ81 and Bachelor of Science (BASc) ʾ78 in Electrical Engineering

Quote by Eli Fathi, CEO of MindBridge Ai, University of Ottawa alumnus, Master’s ʾ81 and Bachelor of Science (BASc) ʾ78 in Electrical Engineering. Excerpt from episode 3 of season 2 of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Engineering's Make the Future podcast. 

Eli Fathi is CEO at MindBridge Ai, developer of the world’s first auditing tool based upon artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies – Ai Auditor – to uncover errors in financial data. Eli has been a technology entrepreneur for over 30 years, having founded or co-founded many successful technology companies. Eli was recognized as the 2018 AI Leader of the Year by the Digital Finance Institute and is a prolific speaker, including talks at the AICPA, Startup Canada Day on the Hill, and TEDx. Eli also gives back to the community by mentoring future business leaders and sitting on the boards of various non-profit organizations.   WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE: The rise and the meaning of AI revolution  How Eli built his companies from scratch and what you should expect to sacrifice in order to succeed Top mistakes salespeople make all the time The role of Human to Human Connection   SHOW NOTES   [00:31] Introduction [01:42] Welcome Eli [02:06] Business stories that inspire Eli [02:20] The story of Febreze [04:10] Customer success and assessment [05:00] Market research [07:17] Becoming a Serial entrepreneur [07:30] Building Fluid corporation [08:18] How Eli got into sales [09:30] Challenges he faced earlier on [11:05] Mistakes most salespeople make [12:38] Good relationship with customers? [13:25] Eli's favorite sales failure [15:35] The rise of Artificial intelligence [16:00] AI as a threat to salespeople [18:32] The role of Human to Human connection [19:42] Competition in AI development [22:04] Meaning of Leadership [23:10] Failure rate of new companies [24:20] His mantras [25:47] Challenges facing today’s sales leaders [27:25] Contact info  

Eli Fathi is CEO of MindBridge Ai

Eli Fathi is the CEO and President of Mindbridge AI, a company using machine learning to detect erroneous patterns in accounting data. Accounting processes have remained relatively unchanged for decades, Eli discusses how machine learning approaches have the potential to detect error patterns in accounting data including fraudulent transactions. In addition, Eli discusses how machine learning could, in the future, change auditing into a real-time activity potentially detecting intent to commit fraud.

We made it! I am so excited to share with you all the first year anniversary of CanInnovate podcast. I can't believe that we made it this far and I could have done it without all of you who supported me and my podcast on this journey. CanInnovate as you might already know is my passion project. A passion project that is dedicated to share to the world how awesome Canadian innovators are. During my journey, I have interviewed so many aspiring innovators who are changing the world as we know it by providing valuable lessons, marketing and innovative tips, cheat sheets and lessons.  In this episode, my good friend Julie Shum who had been with be since day 1 get to interview me about the lessons that I learned, the tips that I applied that changed the course of how I do my business and my future plans for CanInnovate. So tune in and have fun!   Shoot, have I done? What’s next? I remembered when I first submitted my request to Apple and thought maybe I will get three to four days approval for my podcast. But, things got a little hyped when it was in fact approved 10 minutes after I submitted my request. So I asked myself, what’s next?   Trying to prove my mentor wrong My first objective and goal for starting a podcast was to prove my original thesis and my mentor wrong and that there is a lot of Canadian innovation happening on the landscape. There's so much more innovation and thought leadership that is happening in the Canadian soil and I want to share and provide awareness that there are loads of Canadian innovations out there. I love the fact that people are saying that they don't know that this kind of innovation or company is Canadian. I love the feedback that we are getting and which brings awareness of some really great Canadian thought leaders and provide some insights out there to our listeners. My motivation now is really to create that awareness about what is currently happening on the Canadian landscape so that we can start supporting them.   Who in the first year surprise you the most being a Canadian innovator?   Dr Ann Cavoukian because of her take on privacy just makes me more passionate about securing our privacy. I even ask my clients about their privacy awareness and share with them what think about it and ask how they purge about or how do they maintain it and so on. I was also inspired by Eli Fathi of MindBridge AI because he brings so much innovation tips and he has been a serial entrepreneur for a long time. He taught us how to bring company to life and how to sell these companies for millions of dollars. Eli also told us that his secret sauce for his success was his wife. We also had Ariel Gaten of Muse who has been on our podcast twice where we talk about the value of meditation on our regular podcast episode and a masterclass about changing our minds and practice tactical things on how to get ourselves on stuck on situation by using and understanding how our brain works through meditation. It is also really exciting that we got Daryl Hemingway who is actually a rocket scientist from NASA, who is also a filmmaker and is a serial entrepreneur. He is also the CEO and founder of SmartTone, an entertainment technology company with one goal in mind – connecting broadcast media to mobile. They believe entertainment should excite audiences and enable them to participate. And when i found out that the book that i was reading for years, The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier who is actually Canadian, it blew my mind! Michael provided as with the seven questions that change literally almost everything that I do.   Did you apply any tips and tricks or insights that your guests provided?   Of course I did, when they share these best practices it really excites me because I’m learning something new and a few important practices that I learned from this best practices are: We can't do things alone - and I think this is really important because we tend to forget that we don't have a support system all of the time. Networking is huge and making network count – Our guests they have given so much insight and values about networking. One of them was Andreas Souvaliotis from Carrots reward told us that he never eats alone. He continues to never eat alone and the reason behind it is to learn the different perspective from people about the world that he didn't learn about and almost having eyes at the back of his head.   Where do you think the direction of your project is taking you?   This is huge for me because I am transitioning or to change into something that this not only focuses on innovators who talked about their journey but also start offering master classes or a deep dive into those best practices because we always hear about this kinds of tips and best practices but no one tells us how to do it. So now I have been reaching out to these innovators and masterminds to focus on more tactical things to help the listeners understand what we should do about these best practices that were given to us to bring more value into our lives and our businesses. I want to provide more cheat sheets out there where people can do things, more workshops or things that I usually do on corporations. I’m starting to see how valuable it is to see individuals to get the same access to these things that corporations provide and I wanted to really make it user friendly.   With all this industry and the Canadian innovators that you have discovered what do you think are going to get disrupted this year?   It is really difficult for me to say because I think there is no company that is not going to get hit. For example, Fin-tech is really going to hit insurance industry soon because the whole thing and notion about privacy and security and the level of transparency is really going to continue and it is going to allow the consumers to keep asking questions and companies should be more responsive and I think this is really going to continue to evolve and take place. Another example is the block chain technology, the smart contracts, the privacy, the security and everything else is really going to hit every industry. Supply chain is also a great one because you are looking at end to end perspective. Company cultures, I think the shift on the company's behavior needs to change because they need to be a lot more innovative and they need to hear the employees so that they all have a stake on the ground that needs to be around for a long time.   Is there someone you are looking to interview may be an idol or something?   I would love to get the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the podcast. I'd love to pick up his brain and talk about what is happening and where things are going and to really hear the vision of what they are thinking.   Do you have any surprises up your sleeves?   When I started teaching at George Brown University, I talked to a lot of people who connected with me because they listened to the podcast and they wanted to meet. And the one thing that I noticed is that they don't know how to network. So I decided to write a book about networking and communications. I think that networking had become an evolved art because you can network via social media, you can network behind the computer or you don't have to meet face-to-face to create a connection. In fact, I have relationships around the world with people that I have never met but I jumped on a Skype call to meet them. So yes it is about communication and networking but it is really about how to connect with people.   Where is your favorite Canadian hot spot or hide away that you can share with us?   I love going for a walk by the waterfront!

On e056 we explore “Leading with Ai” with Mindbridge Ai CEO Eli Fathi. Why? Because PwC estimates that by 2030, Artificial Intelligence will contribute $15.7 Trillion to the World’s economy. That’s why. “A.I. will have the same impact on this planet that electricity had.” Eli Fathi is a serial entrepreneur who has launched several successful and innovative technology companies in North America that served a global customer base. Eli is passionate about personal growth as well, helping people see that challenging themselves and others to be held to a higher standard will serve everyone better, scaling up businesses around world class products that solve real world problems. “The rising tide raises old boats” By defining ambitious goals and empowering teams to take on the challenges and accomplish them, Eli Fathi has founded or co-founded numerous companies. In fact, he has been the CEO of SIX technology companies, including Mindbridge Ai. He has co-authored a book on software project management & had 12 publications. Being a true leader, Eli has always made time to help other emerging leaders and entrepreneurs, including sharing his experiences in business on his blog. “It’s very important that you give back to the community” MindBridge Ai provides advanced anomaly detection solutions based on easy to use human-centric Ai, machine learning and big data to provide the fastest, most flexible and affordable way for organizations of all sizes to effectively find new insights. This company is at the absolute forefront of the Artificial Intelligence curve, pushing boundaries that are changing the way businesses operate in Canada and around the globe. “Our intention is to put Ottawa on the map - plant the flag here that we are open to business in Ai, we have great companies and we can become a centre of excellence in this area.” In June of last year, Eli’s company MindBridge secured $4.3M in seed funding and global VC’s have been buzzing around Mindbridge ever since. Join us by listening in on this excellent conversation with the Inspiring Eli Fathi. Press Play Now. LINKS Eli Fathi on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/eli-fathi Eli Fathi on Twitter https://twitter.com/oiqeli Eli Fathi’s Blog www.mytakeonbusiness.com Mindbridge AI Website https://www.mindbridge.ai

AI provides Foresights - The Holy Grail in AI Companies! Eli Fathi is the Co-founder & CEO of his seventh start-up, MindBridge Analytics Inc. He has been recognized with numerous awards including the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance, Startup Canada 2016 Senior Entrepreneur Award for Canada and Civic Entrepreneurship, you name it he’s got it. Eli has also been featured in publications such as Huffington Post, Globe and Mail and the Financial Post. He is also active in his community and has provided about half a Billion dollars in job creation!   Episode Overview:   Is big data a problem? Yes, BIG data is a problem but it is also a blessing for AI because big data gives you information that you can mine and provide results. In the machine and artificial intelligence, we cannot detect intent. Error plus intent is fraud. So, fraud is really left in the course to decide the intent but we definitely can detect errors and irregularities in the data.   In this episode, Eli talks about the levels of how MindBridge AI works in regards to hindsights, insights and foresights (the holy grail in the AI companies) and how MindBridge applies it on a near real-time basis. He also tackled on the issue about the damage caused by major frauds and how the 80-20 rule takes place.   Listen to this episode to learn more about how artificial intelligence helps in securing your financial data with the help of MindBridge Ai. Plus, get the awesome tips that Eli shared with us today!   What you’ll learn in this episode:   One of the most important things of small company is FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS. One of the most attractive markets from their perspective is the external audit market. The CPA world has been using the same processes for the last hundred years and has not been disrupted to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the audit process.   They are addressing the internal and external audit market, with Ai Auditor, their extensible AI platform that can also be used for the financial market. Each year, the world loses $3 Trillion dollars due to errors and frauds that are going unnoticed. This is the market that MindBridge is addressing. By using artificial intelligence, MindBridge is increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the audit process. By reviewing the data (trees), we can ascertain the overall high-level aspects of the company (forest). “The relationship between the trees in the forest; Sometimes when you look at the forest, you don't see the trees in the forest and vise versa” but the interesting thing is that with artificial intelligence is that by looking at the trees, you can tell what’s going on in the forest.   Tips he shared:   You have to build your own credibility Don’t look for a manager but look for a leader Do good; make a difference Ask for forgiveness not permission Don't try to micromanage Don’t criticize but rather encourage Empower people to take action and be solution oriented Be part of a team Don't compare yourself against others Never stop learning Think out of the box Challenge the status quo With every customer meeting, 10 minutes before the end of the meeting always ask the question “what is the next step?” Always ask for the order and make sure that when you get the answer, stop talking. Resources Mentioned:   Business Resources: Have a mentor Book recommendation: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg Productivity tool: Arleen Fathi (Eli Fathi’s wife) Website: Eli Fathi Website: MindBridge AI Hotspots: Baan Thai (Ottawa), Royal Treasures (Ottawa) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-fathi/ Twitter: Eli Fathi   Company Background:   MindBridge Ai is a venture-backed FinTech company based in Ottawa, Canada. Through the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, the MindBridge platform detects anomalous patterns of activities, unintentional errors and intentional misstatements. Using the MindBridge Ai-Auditor, organizations across multiple industries can minimize financial loss, reduce corporate liability and can focus on providing higher value services to their clients. MindBridge launched Ai Auditor, its extensible artificial intelligence (AI) platform in February 2017 and has since enjoyed burgeoning demand. MindBridge Ai has signed over 125 customers in 6 countries and doubled the size of its workforce.  

Eli Fathi is the CEO of MindBridge Ai – a company that uses advanced solutions based human-centric AI, machine learning and big data to provide to help identify and eliminate financial crimes.  “I was bitten by the bug of entrepreneurship. Because you care, you are... The post Canada’s AI Pioneer with Eli Fathi – May 23, 2017 appeared first on Startup Canada.