CapitalGeek

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By: Josh Stephens

On CapitalGeek we discuss the lessons learned from seasoned industry veterans and subject matter experts, geeks of all kinds. From product and engineering, operations and finance, or sales and marketing we’ll learn from their stories as they’ve traversed the path from invention to IPO, with all the battle scars to prove it.

Richard Earnest, Veteran Six-time CEO and Leadership GEEK
#47
09/20/2022

Richard Earnest is a six-time CEO, leadership expert, and author of the new book - Leading with Ethics and Humanity - Do you have the guts? We speak with Richard about his new book, what it was like as a first-time book author, and how the lessons he learned leading in the US Navy and as a CEO and board member shaped his perspective on ethical leadership. Richard is one of my favorite people to talk to and I can't wait to get started.


Austin Trees Senior Vice President at JLL
#46
08/23/2022

Austin Trees is the Senior Vice President at Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and an industry expert on everything office space. 

On this episode of Capital Geek Austin shares best practice and what to look out for when leasing an office space. 

 

 


Bo Blackburn & Jeff Daily - Cofounders and CEO, COO at Seller's Shield
#45
06/28/2022

This week's guest was Bo Blackburn and Jeff Daily, co-founders at Sellers Shield. Sellers Shield is revolutionizing the way that seller's disclosures are handled during real estate transactions and helping to radically evolve the way that real estate transactions are handled through their next-generation cloud platform.


Alfredo Ramirez and Jonathan Sass, CEO and head of product at Vyopta.
#44
05/12/2022

That was Jonathan Sass, vice president of product and marketing at Vyopta. Vyopta is helping customers get the most out of technologies like Zoom, Slack, and MS Teams while integrating in-person participation for folks returning to the office. There's never been a better time to explore how platforms like Vyopta's digital collaboration experience management platform can help and I'm anxious to dig in. Welcome to this week's episode of Capital GEEK.


Joe Schreiber, CEO and Founder at AppNovi
#43
03/30/2022

Joe Schreiber is CEO and founder at AppNovi. Joe and his co-founder Ethan Smart have spent the last 20 years in various cybersecurity roles. They founded AppNovi to solve a gap in the marketplace that they kept running up against while doing incident response, cybersecurity risk analysis, and threat hunting. I love working with founders who are authentically solving problems that they themselves have experienced as practitioners and Joe is doing exactly that at AppNovi. If you work in cybersecurity or as a part of an IT team this is an episode you won't want to miss.


Denny LeCompte, CEO at Portnox
#42
03/09/2022

As CEO, Denny LeCompte is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and strategic direction at Portnox. Denny brings over 20 years of experience in IT infrastructure and cyber security. Prior to joining Portnox, Denny held executive leadership roles at leading IT management and security firms, including SolarWinds and AlienVault. Denny holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Rice University.


Debbie Madden, Chairwoman at Stride
#41
02/22/2022

Debbie is an award winning serial technology entrepreneur, CEO, founder, board member, thought leader, author and advisor with a 26 year track record of scaling profitable technology startups.

She is currently the founder and chairwoman of Stride Consulting, an agile software development firm. She has been CEO of 3 technology startups, 2 of which she founded. She has scaled 4 high performing technology companies through 2 global downturns, and has landed on Inc 500 twice (with a total of 9 out of 9 eligible years on Inc 5000).


Andrew Kahl, CEO at Backbox
#40
02/08/2022

Andrew has a strong track record of growing and leading early and mid-stage companies into stable organizations. He co-founded CREDANT Technologies in 2001 (data encryption software) and was acquired by Dell in December 2012 and he is a former Chairman of the Graduate School Alumni Board at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business. Andrew is now the CEO of Backbox, a market leader in network automation, security, and management solutions.
 


Shelley Perry, Managing Director at Scalelogix Ventures
#39
11/17/2021

Shelley Perry has 25 years of experience as a software executive, including with NTT, HP, and TicketMaster. She also spent four years as a Venture and Operating Partner with Insight Partners, and today works with Nexa Equity Partners and with us at Elsewhere Partners as an Independent Advisor. She recently held the Executive Chair role at Airbrake, an Elsewhere Partners investment, supporting the company's growth leading to its successful acquisition by LogicMonitor and also serves on the board of Chargebee, Bynder, AutoReturn, and Foresite.


Jack Naglieri, CEO and Founder of Panther Labs
#38
11/03/2021

Jack Naglieri is a professional with a passion for information security, cloud infrastructure, and security software.

His exposure to information security began as an incident responder for Verisign. After graduation from George Mason University, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and spent two years at Yahoo as an incident responder. He later transitioned into a security engineering role, with the challenge of deploying security monitoring tools at a massive scale. In 2016, he joined Airbnb, and open sourced a framework that enables real-time data analysis and alerting at scale called StreamAlert. He then managed a team...