Podcasts about past ceo

Jeff Bell is the past CEO of LegalShield, North America's largest legal subscription service for households and small business. Jeff grew this business from a $650m valuation in 2014 to over $2.4b in 2022 when he retired. Presently, Jeff serves as an Operating Partner on the MidOcean Partners Private Equity Investment Team. Prior to LegalShield, Jeff served as the Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Xbox. He is known for launching Halo 3, Gears of War, Rock Band and Netflix on Xbox Live. He spent 5 years at DaimlerChrysler as the Vice President and General Manager of Chrysler and Jeep Divisions. He is credited with development and launch of the the Jeep Rubicon and 4-door Wrangler, as well as the Chrysler 200, among others. Jeff served Ford Motor Company for 12 years, including as Managing Director of Ford Spain. He serves on the Board of his alma mater, Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and has served on the Kenyon College and National Multiple Sclerosis Board of Trustees.    https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbell801/

Check out the list of 8 New Leadership Books to Read. Plus, our guest is Scott Beck, longtime entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of GLOO, past CEO of Einstein's Bagels and Boston Market, and President and COO of Blockbuster. Scott has almost 50 years of executive experience, starting off by working at Waste Management as a teenager, and multiple seasons of executive leadership. And a longtime investor and venture advisor, with notable companies like Ancestry and Home Advisors. We discuss leadership, why connection matters, lessons from Blockbuster, how to create a win/win, the power of family, and much more. Make sure to visit http://h3leadership.com to access the list and all the show notes. Thanks again to our partners for this episode: CONVOY OF HOPE – donate to the recent tornado relief work at http://convoyofhope.org/donate. Convoy is my trusted partner for delivering food and relief by responding to disasters in the US and all around the world. Right now, Convoy of Hope is still helping war victims in Ukraine, providing basic needs like food, hygiene supplies, medical supplies, blankets, bedding, clothing and more. Along with earthquake victims in Morocco. And the Maui Wildfires and recent tornadoes in the US. All through partnering with local Churches. Join me and please support their incredible work. To donate visit http://convoyofhope.org/donate. And OVERFLOW – change the way you give with Overflow. Visit http://overflow.co/h3. Overflow is a simple way for your congregation to give through Apple Pay, Google Pay, stock, debit, credit, and cryptocurrency. Plus discover Overflow Tap, which allows attendees to simply tap their phone on the chair in front of them, for giving, registering for events, and filling out connection cards. Discover effortless generosity with Overflow. Visit http://overflow.co/h3 for ONE YEAR FREE of Apple Pay and Google Pay when launching Overflow Tap. Visit http://overflow/co/h3 to learn more.

Under his 4 years as CEO, Structurely experienced 10x growth in conversations processed in the real estate industry and built a proprietary conversational AI application that 99.9% of consumers believed was human.Structurely also became a Housing Wire Real Estate Tech Top 100 company, and grew to a team of 26 employees.With over 3.5 million conversations with their AI Assistant Structurely's Real Estate data set is nearing 10mm individually labeled messages.With experience in Geographic Information Services (GIS), real estate, financing, urban planning, project management, and graphic design, Nate leads the product, engineering and machine learning teams at Structurely to align with real estate customer goals.Test our AI product for yourself! http://TestYourAIAssistant.comInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/interview-with-nate-joens-co-founder-head-of-innovation-and-past-ceo-at-structurely

Under his 4 years as CEO, Structurely experienced 10x growth in conversations processed in the real estate industry and built a proprietary conversational AI application that 99.9% of consumers believed was human.Structurely also became a Housing Wire Real Estate Tech Top 100 company, and grew to a team of 26 employees.With over 3.5 million conversations with their AI Assistant Structurely's Real Estate data set is nearing 10mm individually labeled messages.With experience in Geographic Information Services (GIS), real estate, financing, urban planning, project management, and graphic design, Nate leads the product, engineering and machine learning teams at Structurely to align with real estate customer goals.Test our AI product for yourself! http://TestYourAIAssistant.comInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/interview-with-nate-joens-co-founder-head-of-innovation-and-past-ceo-at-structurely

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About Dr. Jose Bolaños MD: Jose Bolanos MD is CEO of Nimbus-T Global inc, focused on Secure Healthcare Identity Management and Authentication. His consulting practice has provided strategic development and positioning of many healthcare startup companies. He is a speaker on funding healthcare startup companies and is passionate about innovation. He trained at Stanford Medical Center as an Ob/Gyn specialist and served in clinical practice for over 20 years. Current CEO of Nimbus Technologies focused on securing healthcare information and network security. * Past researcher at UC Davis in human sperm cryopreservation and fertilization. * Past Chief Strategist for LifeMed ID which focused on patient identity management using Smart Card technologies and Cloud based infrastructure. * His emphasis on managing patient healthcare data for hospitals, HIEs and ACOs. * Past CEO of New Americas Medical Group, a physician IPA dealing with managed care solutions for Hispanic patient healthcare delivery. Speaking Engagements: – Sept 2014 – Healthcare Transformation Group (10 IDNs) Kaiser Sponsored Garfield Innovation Center, Oakland CA – “The Future in Healthcare Transformation.” – May 2014 – Dialogue on Disparity, Washington DC – “Advances in Technology to Bridge the Cultural Disparity Gap.” – March 2014 – National Hispanic Medical Association, Washington DC – “Best Practices for Technology to Engage Hispanic Patients.” – January 2014 – N. California HIMSS, San Francisco, CA – Innovation and Technology Summit | Moderator of a panel including Prentice Tom MD, CMO CEP America, Michael Arratow MD, CMO San Mateo Medical Center and Aenor Sawyer MD, Director of Digital Health at UCSF. – August 2013 – UBM – Med Device San Diego – “Successful Funding Strategies for Startups.” http://venture-med.com http://nimbus-t.com Check out Nimbus-T Telegram Channel. https://t.me/nimbus_t --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, Kieran Gallahue, Executive Chairman Signifier Medical Technologies, past CEO CareFusion ($4.5B Med-Tech), CEO ResMed ($3B Med-Device) shares his early career influences and his new focus as Board Director for multiple healthcare companies. Kieran also looks back on his work at CareFusion, his main corporate objectives, company challenges, managerial style, and the BD acquisition. He will also share his candid thoughts on future medical technology trends and opportunities.  

Join Sal's Investment Syndicate: Click to Join Ed Belove is a very active angel investor. He's a successful founder in software and hardware. Just a very thoughtful person. Very, very smart, very observant, very committed. Founders would be very lucky to have Ed Belove in their corner. I really enjoyed this interview, which I recorded in the first season of the podcast. And it is a very, very meaty interview. Full of interesting stories. For example, helping build Lotus with Mitch Kapor and all sorts of other things. So, it's a little bit of history of the software industry. A lot of wisdom about building a company and an introduction to just a tremendous, tremendous angel investor and person. I highly recommend the conversation with Ed Belove. As an undergrad at Harvard, Ed Belove hung out with people at the campus radio station that liked to play with computers. This eventually led to a brilliant career that included building software products with the visionary Mitch Kapor at Lotus Development. Ed co-founded a company that greatly expanded the Apple II’s ability to communicate. The company would eventually pivot to supplying the hardware for early Internet services such as CompuServe and AOL. This successful trajectory allowed Ed to dedicate his time to building early-stage companies and doing philanthropic work. As a much sought-after angel investor, Ed puts his capital and energy to work on behalf of promising startups. If you are building a software startup, you would be well served to listen to the thoughts Ed expresses in this podcast. HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN OUR CONVERSATION: Ed Belove's Bio Data General in the Early 1970’s Was a Hotbed of Entrepreneurship – Many Startups Came Out of Data General Software As It Was Before It Ate the World Data General Gave Away Software to Sell Hardware Space War Video Game on PDP-10 Computers “Soul of a New Machine” by Tracy Kidder Now There Is a Huge Number of Software Building Blocks That Anybody Can Put Together – This Did Not Exist in the 1970s Telex and TWX Emulation for the Apple II – Got Around Apple II’s Inability to Multitask Ed Belove Went to Work Lotus Development – Mitch Kapor Was a Real Visionary Ed Belove Runs into People Who Are Still Using Lotus Agenda WorkFlowy! Ed Belove, Lessons from Fetchnotes – Alex Horak & Alex Schiff “Ease of use can't be overestimated” Interchange Online – Put the First Major Paper Online, The Washington Post – Ziff Davis AT&T Still Had a Monopoly Mindset despite Deregulation & Divestiture – No Hurry to Make Decisions in Fast-moving Market “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton Christensen “The Road Ahead” by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson How Ed Belove Got into Angel Investing Do Help Get the Word out About Angel Invest Boston by Leaving a Review on iTunes What Ed Belove Looks for in a Startup Knowing What You Don’t Know CEOs Need to Have People to Talk to In & Out of the Startup – There Are Now Many More Resources than in the Past CEO, Don’t “Manage” Your Board, Work with Your Board CEO, Founder, Know Thyself Shares, Notes and SAFEs, Oh My!

Past CEO of Public Allies (https://publicallies.org/), advisor to Obama White House, and all around good guy Paul Schmitz joins me to talk about how Everyone Leads. Paul is currently CEO of Leading Inside Out(https://www.leadinginsideout.org/) and a Senior Advisor to The Collective Impact Forum. some org's doing work worthy of donations: https://www.policylink.org/ https://www.litwi.org/ https://eji.org/

Suzanne Jones, CP APMP Fellow, has made her career as a capture/proposal professional. She is a Proposal Director and Business Winning Leader for one of the top U.S. defense contractors. Her winning record includes many billions in new and hyper-competitive wins in three top-ranked companies.In 18 years, Suzanne has proven to be a capable leader in a complex industry. While gaining valuable experience, Suzanne has given back to the profession by volunteering her time to the APMP. She served on the Board of Directors (BOD) of the Nor’easters chapter for 4 years (1 as Secretary, 3 as President). During that time, she was instrumental in growing their membership and event attendance, and leading their award-winning annual symposia. In 2013, Suzanne won Chapter President of the Year.Suzanne also served on the APMP International BOD for 5 years, 3 of those as an Officer [COO (2014); CEO (2015); and Past CEO (2016)] during a major time of transition. Under her leadership in 2015, APMP membership increased by 19%, one of the highest years to-date. That same year, she introduced the popular Ignite Talks as part of the annual Bid & Proposal Conference (BPC) agenda, which was a fresh, new idea that received rave reviews. The Writing Bids & Proposals for Dummies book was also another significant project during that year. Suzanne remains an active APMP member and certified Practitioner. In addition to her corporate and APMP awards, in 2017, Suzanne earned a seat in the first ever 40-under-40 class, and that same year earned the designation of APMP Fellow, the association’s highest honour. Just a few months ago, in May 2020, she was presented the APMP Proposal Executive of the Year award.Suzanne holds a Bachelor’s degree from Liberty University. She cherishes time with family and friends, and enjoys travel, sports, and exercise.

You are listening to Scribble Talk, a podcast for bid and proposal professionals. My name is Baskar Sundaram and with my co – host Ashley Kayes, we will be sitting down with our industry veterans to share their stories, discuss their career, and learn how to make an impact in the industry.Today’s Guest is Colleen Jolly, Colleen has 20 years' experience in visual communications, training, marketing (event management and sales (B2G, B2B, and B2C) across several industries and countries including deep expertise in the US, UK, and Australia. Colleen served as Secretary of APMP NCA chapter 2010-2012; and on the International Board of APMP 2012-2015 as Secretary, COO, the youngest CEO in the organization's history, and Past CEO. Collen is the youngest person to win the APMP Fellow Award in 2010; she won the APMP Insight Award in 2012 for her article on international business an was also honoured at inaugural APMP "40 Under 40" honor in 2017. In this "inspirational" episode we will discuss Colleen's Life and CareerEntry to Proposal Industry APMP CEO role and wider APMP Contribution Entrepreneuship journeyHealth and Fitness How APMP inspired her NEW venture Pole ConPeople influential in her life and career Advice to bid and proposal professionals Next Steps and Few fun Qs.... Be Yourself to Succeed - Get to know the human side of your high achieving multi talented industry expert, Colleen Jolly

This episode features Janet Freeman- Daily, writer, lung cancer patient, advocate and Twitter chat moderator of the Lung Cancer Social Media chat (#LCSMchat), she is joined by Dr. Paul Bunn, a distinguished professor and Dudley Endowed Chair at the University of Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center and IASLC Past President and Past CEO; as well as Dr. Suresh Ramalingam, Roberto Goizueta Chair in Cancer Research, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. Together they discuss the upcoming IASLC 2020 Lung Cancer Targeted Therapies meeting in Santa Monica.

What you'll learn: A seasoned eCommerce leader and startup founder tells owners of consumer brands how they can take more ownership of their brand image and connect to their audiences on a deeper level. Plus, you'll get insights into how to turn customers into a powerful sales channel for your business.   About our guest: Neel Grover is a seasoned eCommerce leader who has led great teams at multiple fast-growing companies. He ran the 3rd largest marketplace in the U.S. with over $5 Billion online sales and over 20 million products from 7,000 retailers. He also ran a top fashion marketplace with over 1,000 brands integrated. Upon becoming CEO, Grover turned Buy.com into a company that was losing almost $100 million per year into a company with 13 consecutive profitable quarters, competing with Amazon on every product. He has now founded Indi, a SaaS Engagement Cloud that helps brands initiate their customer engagement directly in their digital properties rather than in social media as social media platforms are seizing control of customer engagement and data.   Key takeaways from this episode: Lessons from a lawyer: how Neel's law background influenced his business decisions – 3:18 The journey towards becoming a CEO of a $600 million-dollar revenue company – 4:52 The shift from a large company to startup: what you need to know as CEO – 6:04 How to turn a business around: from major loss to major gains – 7:31 Innovative ways for competing against the giant: Amazon – 9:50 Is it a good idea to help your competitors by sharing your business model? – 12:07 A new perspective on Social Media is and how to utilize it as a business – 13:11 How to use Indie to approach Social Media and Affiliate Marketing differently to drive sales for your business – 15:54 How to integrate video testimonials into your D2C site and why it matters – 19:17 The importance of investing in your D2C Channel for long-term rewards – 20:37 The day-to-day sales process for acquiring new customers as a startup – 24:34 One of the biggest challenges for acquiring new customers as a startup – 25:53 The most important factor to focus on when growing a D2C business – 28:06 Neel's biggest business win in the past year – 29:53 One actionable business step to take to help your company – 31:05   Get in touch with Neel: Visit www.Indi.com or email sales@indi.com Need more expert advice? Learn more at www.retailband.com Positive thoughts? Leave us a review on iTunes Want to connect? Follow us on LinkedIn Want more information? Listen to EP8 of the Page 1 Podcast for more insights into growing your D2C Channel

Matthew Schiltz is an experienced senior executive with a proven track record in building successful, high growth technology and cloud companies ranging from private startups to public companies. Matthew is CEO at Conga, directing the company's growth strategy, which includes financing, driving global sales and expanding product offerings. Matthew's extensive executive management and leadership experience is driving strong company growth which has resulted in several Inc 500, Fast 50 and Top 100 Places to Work awards. Past CEO successes include Insightful Corporation, CourtLink, DocuSign, Tier 3 and Blue Box Group. Matthew has received several industry accolades in recognition of his past successes and is considered an expert on software, technology, and cloud business practices.  

CEO of OH Partners, Past President of the Phoenix Suns, Past CEO of the Dial Corporation, Past VP @ P&G, his resume goes on and on. Brad Casper teach us how to be relevant to any industry.

Dana Pharant is a Master Healer, Life Strategist, Former Dominatrix and Past CEO of a 7-figure business. Utilizing 25 years of working with clients and refining her process to what works, she helps people get out of their own way and live – no excuses, no apologies - their most powerful, connected and fun-filled lives.  Having grown up in a cult, and survived just about every form of abuse, she has made it her life’s work to heal herself first and then help others to truly step out of victim into their own authentic power. Unleash your inner Dominatrix as Dana and ‘Tina chat about stepping into your power. Connect with Dana Pharant at rebrand.ly/secref12ef Connect with ‘Tina Murray at http://tinamurray.com/ Connect with ‘Tina on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TinaMurrayInsideAngle

Matthew Schiltz. He’s an experienced, senior executive with a proven track record in building successful, high growth technology and cloud companies ranging from the private startup stage to public companies. He’s responsible for his current company, Conga, and its growth strategy which includes financing, driving global sales and expanding product offerings. His extensive executive management and leadership experience is driving strong company growth which has resulted in several Inc 500, Fast 50 and Top 100 Places to Work awards. Past CEO successes include Insightful Corporation, CourtLink, DocuSign, Tier 3 and Blue Box Group. He has received several industry accolades in recognition of his past successes and is considered an expert on software, technology, and cloud business practices. Famous Five: Favorite Book? – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People What CEO do you follow? – Dan Springer Favorite online tool? — Email How many hours of sleep do you get?— 6-7 If you could let your 20-year old self, know one thing, what would it be? – Matt would let others know that SaaS technology is about the people   Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:58 – Nathan introduces Matt to the show 03:07 – Matt is the first professional CEO hired for DocuSign 03:38 – Matt was also recruited by the board of Conga as their CEO 04:41 – Matt has worked with founders who are great in product and technology, but were not able to grow their company as a CEO 05:25 – The partnership with DocuSign’s founder was a successful experience 06:18 – Conga is one of the top 5 global ISV (Independent Software Vendors) in the Salesforce ecosystem 06:44 – Conga specializes in data and electronic contracts 06:57 – They take live, Salesforce data and turns it into dynamic documents that are automated 07:21 – Conga is pure SaaS play 07:45 – Renewal rate is astronomically high 08:08 – Conga has a negative revenue churn 08:44 – Conga has a mix of mid-market and enterprise customers 10:30 – The customers pay directly on the number of seats 11:05 – Customers can start with one product, then expand to five products 11:55 – Conga’s customer base is two thirds midmarket and one third enterprise 12:33 – Conga’s document generation product pricing starts at $200 monthly for 10 seats 12:59 – “It’s a pretty low risk threshold” 13:30 – The Salesforce AppExchange is the number one customer vehicle for Conga 16:06 – 80% of Conga’s customers regard them as offering a critical tool that they need to use 17:00 – Conga has over 9000 customers globally 17:30 – Conga is growing quickly 18:03 – Conga grew 200% last year and another 100% this year 19:59 – Conga is in a typical gross margin rate 20:10 – The majority of Conga is owned by Insight Venture Partners of New York 20:46 – Conga has announced Salesforce Ventures as a strategic investor in May 2017 21:15 – Matt shares how they decide which companies to acquire 21:50 – Is it a good strategic fit for Conga? 22:02 – Is it a great people fit? 22:30 – Conga has 250-500 employees 23:53 – Matt shares his thoughts on Conga taking the IPO route as a funding event 25:05 – DocuSign just announced their intention to go public 27:35 – The Famous Five   3 Key Points: Not all founders can grow their business; the right CEO can be the answer. The growth of a company isn’t based solely on the product, but the people who are behind it. The IPO route for funding is a fantastic place to start.   Resources Mentioned: Simplero – The easiest way to launch your own membership course like the big influencers do but at 1/10th the cost. The Top Inbox – The site Nathan uses to schedule emails to be sent later, set reminders in inbox, track opens, and follow-up with email sequences GetLatka - Database of all B2B SaaS companies who have been on my show including their revenue, CAC, churn, ARPU and more Klipfolio – Track your business performance across all departments for FREE Hotjar – Nathan uses Hotjar to track what you’re doing on this site. He gets a video of each user visit like where they clicked and scrolled to make the site a better experience Acuity Scheduling – Nathan uses Acuity to schedule his podcast interviews and appointments Host Gator– The site Nathan uses to buy his domain names and hosting for the cheapest price possible Audible– Nathan uses Audible when he’s driving from Austin to San Antonio (1.5-hour drive) to listen to audio books Show Notes provided by Mallard Creatives

As an undergrad at Harvard, Ed Belove hung out with people at the campus radio station that liked to play with computers. This eventually led to a brilliant career that included building software products with the visionary Mitch Kapor at Lotus Development. Ed co-founded a company that greatly expanded the Apple II's ability to communicate. The company would eventually pivot to supplying the hardware for early Internet services such as CompuServe and AOL. This successful trajectory allowed Ed to dedicate his time to building early-stage companies and doing philanthropic work. As a much sought-after angel investor, Ed puts his capital and energy to work on behalf of promising startups. If you are building a software startup, you would be well served to listen to the thoughts Ed expresses in this podcast. During our conversation Ed Belove made mention of a document written by Alex Schiff, co-founder of Fetchnotes, a company he and I were very interested in. The link to the document can be found here: Link to Lessons Learned from Doing Fetchnotes Here are some of the topics covered in our conversation: Ed Belove Bio Data General in the Early 1970's Was a Hotbed of Entrepreneurship – Many Startups Came Out of Data General Software As It Was Before It Ate the World Data General Gave Away Software to Sell Hardware Space War Video Game on PDP-10 Computers “Soul of a New Machine” by Tracy Kidder Now There Is a Huge Number of Software Building Blocks That Anybody Can Put Together – This Did Not Exist in the 1970s Telex and TWX Emulation for the Apple II – Got Around Apple II's Inability to Multitask Ed Belove Went to Work Lotus Development – Mitch Kapor Was a Real Visionary Ed Belove Runs into People Who Are Still Using Lotus Agenda WorkFlowy! Ed Belove, Lessons from Fetchnotes – Alex Horak & Alex Schiff “Ease of use can't be overestimated” Interchange Online – Put the First Major Paper Online, The Washington Post – Ziff Davis AT&T Still Had a Monopoly Mindset despite Deregulation & Divestiture – No Hurry to Make Decisions in Fast-moving Market “The Innovator's Dilemma” by Clayton Christensen “The Road Ahead” by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson How Ed Belove Got into Angel Investing Do Help Get the Word out About Angel Invest Boston by Leaving a Review on iTunes What Ed Belove Looks for in a Startup Knowing What You Don't Know CEOs Need to Have People to Talk to In & Out of the Startup – There Are Now Many More Resources than in the Past CEO, Don't “Manage” Your Board, Work with Your Board CEO, Founder, Know Thyself Shares, Notes and SAFEs, Oh My!

Cincinnati Business Talk - Episode #2 Our guest today is Dick Benner, Past CEO of Benner Heating & Air Conditioning. Dick has started started several of his own businesses. Now retired after successfully selling his business. He is  an independent businessman. He will tell us how to buy a business. He is a long term Cincinnati Rotary members. This is the full show, including a portion which was cut off during the live broadcast.