Episodes

with Allison K. Summers

If you enjoy music with crystal clear sound, then note USound, a company that has a mission to change the world by making audio systems better. Ferruccio Bottoni is Co-Founder and CEO of USound GmbH and Fauna Audio GmbH, strong-growing Austrian high-tech companies revolutionizing the personal audio field with their MEMS speakers-based products. Ferruccio is a physicist who understands how to engineer a product that will disrupt and revolutionize the audio industry. Ferruccio and his two partner...

with Allison K. Summers

Alejandro Laplana, Founder and CEO of technology and investments company, Shokworks Inc., has developed over 150 digital platforms and apps for exciting brands, entertainers, sports teams, growth start-ups, enterprises and broadcasters. Some of his clients and co-investors include, The Colombian National Soccer Association, DIMAYOR Colombian National League, Millonarios FC, FC Barcelona, La Liga, Real Madrid, PSG, Kinesis Money, Start-Up Chile, Dupont Chemicals, The Las Vegas Raiders, The Tampa...

with Allison K. Summers

Marisa Santoro is a TEDx speaker, author, career coach, Gutsy Leadership Trainer and motivational speaker. A former Wall Street executive, she is the founder of the career platform, In Our Shoes and the online school, Gutsy Leadership Academy. She trains and coaches workplace professionals, small business owners, and sales leaders. In our conversation, we start with the concepts in Marisa’s book, Own Your Own Authority: Follow Your Instincts, Radiate Confidence, and Communicate as a Leader Peop...

with Allison K. Summers

Lars Ronning, Co-founder of Ailuna, has a personal mission to make more environmental-friendly choices to help save the planet. He also wants to create a community where people can help each other create long-term habits that contribute to healing the environment. Lars has a long history of working in the tech space, working with teams from around the world. His unique approach to creating the Ailuna app calls upon an expert in behavioral science to help people create and keep habits. The Ailu...

with Allison K. Summers

The fourth industrial revolution is the RPA, which stands for Robotic Process Automation. Leading the revolution is Harel Tayeb, a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years’ experience in the technology ecosystem, and CEO of Kryon, an enterprise automation software provider. Harel is leading Kryon’s aggressive growth strategy while building a world-class team of curious, innovative problem solvers. The company, based in Israel, has 10 offices worldwide and serves clients including HSBC, Allian...

with Allison K. Summers

Aline Muylaert is the co-founder of CitizenLab, a civic engagement platform. The software meets the need of local governments that want to connect with citizens digitally, in a safe and efficient way. CitizenLab’s technology allows increased transparency within governmental processes, and to engage citizens in policymaking. 150 local governments in over 50 countries currently use the software. Aline is on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for social entrepreneurship. Her journey has so many lessons f...

with Allison K. Summers

For this episode we head to Singapore to speak with Yeoh Siew Hoon, a remarkable businesswoman, friend of young entrepreneurs, and the founder of Web in Travel (WiT). WiT launched in 2005 and was acquired by Northstar Travel Media in 2104. Siew Hoon continues to lead the platform, having extended editions across the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe. Siew Hoon started the company based on her interest on how technology was changing the way people book and plan their travel but over the years...

with Allison K. Summers

Priszcilla Varnagy is the founder and CEO of Be-novative, a Design Thinking Process Management Platform. Priszcilla is recognized by Forbes 30 under 30, and is a winner of several competitions including Singularity University’s first Global Impact Competition in the CEE region in 2012, The Next Web’s Innovation Challenge, TechMatch Europe Silicon Valley, Morgan Stanley CTO Summits. Priszcilla graduated as a psychologist, so she has a unique take on human nature and the intersection with technol...

with Allison K. Summers

Patricia Osorio is the Founder & CMO at Birdie, a venture backed startup that develops proprietary AI (artificial intelligence) models to help brands understand what consumers think and want from brands and their products. Patricia is also the co-founder of GVAngels, an Angel investment Group with 200 plus members that have invested more than $2-million in 20 startups in Brazil. Patricia’s tech startup journey started in Brazil, continued in South America, and expanded to the U.S. One of her cl...

with Allison K. Summers

Mathew Sweezey, Director of Market Strategy-Salesforce, is one of the leading thought leaders on the future of marketing. His visionary insights into consumer behavior, technologies and business strategies have changed the way startups, Fortune 500 and nonprofit organizations have customer conversations. He frequently writes for the Economist, Forbes, HBR, The Observer, and AdAge magazines. In our exciting conversation we covered the new world of marketing, including: · Consumers own the media...

with Allison K. Summers

Technology is pushing many industries to the edge, including the toy market. Yuting Su is the Founder and CEO of Thinker-Tinker, an Educational-Tech gaming company. Yuting is the genius behind Octobe, a patented character-based smart toy learning platform. Yuting is using all her skills as entrepreneur, inventor, and storyteller with a background in digital and physical game design, experience design, and bioinformatics to bring this smart, cuddly creature to market. In 2017, Yuting was listed ...

with Allison K. Summers

In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation we speak with mergers and acquisition expert Michelle Seiler Tucker about her new book Exit Rich. Michelle is passionate about supporting business owners building a business that is scalable and salable. She covers the principles of the Six P's Method that she believes, if followed, a founder can guide a business to a positive valuation and future sale. Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Inc. She holds a M&AMI (Mergers & Acqui...