Episodes

Martin Luenendonk

Martin Luenendonk is a 3x serial entrepreneur who founded the Finance Club (community of 1.6m finance professionals), Cleverism.com, and Founderjar.com. He loves to share his learnings about business model generation, entrepreneurship, and digital marketing. A product of his generation, Martin thrives in the world of digital communication, which is why marketing is his natural calling. Always sprouting a smile on his face, he gets way too excited about everything new in the marketing world. Foun...

Richard White

Richard White is founder and CEO of Fathom. Video, a free app that records, transcribes & highlights your calls so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes. Fathom was a part of the Y-Combinator W21 batch, is one of only 50 Zoom App Launch Partners, and is one of a small handful of companies Zoom has invested in directly via their Zoom Apps Fund. Prior to Fathom, Richard founded UserVoice, one of the leading platforms that technology companies, from startups to the Fortune 500,...

Ben Worthen

Ben is the CEO of Message Lab, award winning storyteller, he’s showing businesses and content entrepreneurs how to use data to tell stories and build audiences that produce business growth results. He’s sharing how to overcome the cultural and organizational obstacles to doing content marketing well. Message Lab combines journalism, data and design to create content that resonates with the people their clients most need to reach. They believe engaging people around their interests is more effec...

Andy Paul

Andy has been in sales for over four decades. His first sales job was selling women’s shoes at JC Penney. In his professional career Andy has sold everything from computers to small businesses to complex communications systems that sold for tens of millions of dollars to some of the world’s largest enterprises. Andy closed hundreds of millions of dollars in products and services before starting his own company. He has grown and managed large sales teams from scratch. He has coached average perfo...

Josh Gilbert

An entrepreneur and thought leader in geospatial analytics and climate tech, Josh Gilbert is Co-Founder and CEO at Sust Global. He has spoken on these topics at events such as COP26 in Glasgow, and has helped Fortune 500 companies, NGOs and the UK Government to integrate cutting edge climate technologies. Sust Global’s mission is to democratize access to satellite-validated climate data, and Josh developed his idea for Sust Global through first-hand experience working with climate innovation and...

Kate Westad

Show Notes Disruptive CEO Nation Podcast with Allison K. Summers Episode 145 Kate Westad, Founder, Palette by Pak Kate Westad is the inventor and founder of Palette by pak, a refillable, reusable, sustainable beauty system. While packing for a trip after a long day at the office, she realized that there had to be a better way to bring, store, and reuse the many goops, glops & glam™️ she was taking with her on her vacation. As an attorney by trade, Kate began the research process and soon lear...

Nicky Senyard

Show Notes Disruptive CEO Nation Podcast with Allison K. Summers Episode 144 Nicky Senyard, Founder/CEO, Fintel Connect, Vancouver, Canada Nicky Senyard’s two core beliefs are contribution and growth. Throughout Nicky’s career, these focuses have allowed her to achieve both commercial success and to create a business culture that fosters collaboration and personal achievement. Not only has she had the fortune of growing a market-leading business organically over a 15-year period, she has al...

Ashif Mawji

Show Notes Disruptive CEO Nation Podcast with Allison K. Summers Episode 143 Ashif Mawji, Managing Director, Scale Good Fund, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Ashif Mawji is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, venture capitalist, mentor, and community builder. Ashif moved to Canada in 1987 and his parents instilled in him the idea that one can have anything they want in life, but to get there you must work and pay for it. Ashif has directly invested in over 100 companies globally, is invested in...

Eddy Badrina, CEO, Eden Green Technology, Texas, USA

Show Notes Disruptive CEO Nation Podcast with Allison K. Summers Episode 142 Eddy Badrina, CEO, Eden Green Technology, Texas, USA Vertical farming is not a new idea. However, Eddy Badrina, CEO of Eden Green Technology is taking a novel approach that takes all the efficiencies of a greenhouse and adds the density of vertical farming that no other company does to provide produce that is affordable, partly because of its unique distribution model. Since running the company in 2019, retailers, r...

Jason Ash, CEO, Young Planet, UK

Show Notes Disruptive CEO Nation Podcast with Allison K. Summers Episode 141 Jason Ash, CEO, Young Planet, UK Jason Ash is the CEO of a circular-economy app called Young Planet. The app encourages families to adopt a circular method of the giving and receiving used items. The app is free at the point of use and allows parents to upcycle unwanted clothes, toys, and other items. The app is a tech tool, but it’s also a tool for making community connections. Young Planet is a for profit company,...

Bob Miles

Show Notes Disruptive CEO Nation Podcast with Allison K. Summers Episode 140 Bob Miles, Co-Founder, Salad Technologies, Salt Lake City, Utah Leaving his home in Australia, Bob Miles became the Co-Founder of Salad Technologies based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company’s mission is to build the foundational layer of computational resources (PC power) for Web 3.0. To start the effort, Bob enlisted the aid of gamers worldwide to share their individual computer power and to reward them with game...

Ron Rudzin

Show Notes Disruptive CEO Nation Podcast with Allison K. Summers Episode 139 Ron Rudzin, President and CEO Saatva, Texas and New York Sometimes disruption can lead to a chaotic marketplace and the mattress industry has been one of those places. In 2010, the mattress industry had less than 1% of annual sales online. Today, online sales in the US make up 21% of all mattress sales. However, the number of companies launched and failed are in the hundreds. With all the competition and confusion, ...