Office Hours with David Meltzer

Josfine Campbell [0:00] She brings a wealth of experience as a coach, author, former external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School, serial entrepreneur, and four-time Danish Jiu-Jitsu champion. Drawing from her martial arts background, she excels in talent and management development. As a coach for executives and managers at companies like Novo Nordisk and Carlsberg, she empowers professionals t...

Josephine Sandler(J.S.) Nelson J.S. Nelson is a professor of law, author, and business ethics expert with a deep, diverse background bridging law and business school. She has been an academic for over fifteen years. Last year, she taught at Harvard Business School. She will be a Visiting Researcher with the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School during the 2022-2023 academic year. Christophe...

Sandeep Aggarwal Sandeep Aggarwal is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and philanthropist. Sandeep is the only tech entrepreneur in India to have founded two Unicorns back-to-back – Droom, India's largest automobile e-commerce platform and ShopClues, India's first-ever online managed marketplace. Randy Peitsch Randy Peitsch has a significant history in the sporting goods industry, with a parti...

Brett Smiley Brett Smiley is the 39th Mayor of the City of Providence. His focus is on improving the quality of life for all in the city by supporting quality schools, building safer streets, and improving city services for residents and businesses in every neighborhood. Prior to becoming mayor, Smiley served as the first Chief Operating Officer for the City of Providence, Chief of Staff to former...

Immad Akhund Immad Akhund is the British CEO and co-founder of the social gaming company, Heyzap. Based in San Francisco, he leverages his background in computer science and entrepreneurial expertise to lead the successful platform. Akhund is also recognized for his contributions to the industry as an advisor for Seedcamp and frequent speaker at social and mobile gaming events. Michael Zalle Micha...

Julia Valentine [0:57] Julia is a FinTech advisor to boards and management teams. She has held previous leadership positions at JPMorgan Chase, D.E. Shaw and Mosse Partners, which is one of the largest family offices in the world. Her broad areas of practice include Technology & Operations assessment, technical architecture, system selection and implementation, vendor outsourcing, building hyb...

Rebecca Mountain [5:03] She runs a High Performance Coaching firm whose mission is to remove the obstacles people put in their way, so they can take full advantage of their inner greatness. Her work combines the principles and methodologies across multiple disciplines, weaving them together to form customized solutions so her clients can live happier, wealthier and more fulfilled lives. She’s also...

Christopher Day [4:58] Toph Day, CEO of Elevate Ventures has perspective to offer on the “creative collisions” that will fuel the midwest’s growth as an innovation hub through Rally Innovation. Rally was developed to bring together companies, universities, entrepreneurs & investors to forge the creative cross-sectors that power innovation. Laura Crawshaw [18:16] She started her career in her t...

Courtney Wright [3:10] She’s a visionary, entrepreneur, CEO & podcast host whose goal is to help others achieve true success not only in business but in all aspects of life. For 5+ years, she’s been building a holding company which currently consists of Gemini Builds It & Showcase Acrylics, along with E-commerce companies that market the products being manufactured by them. Dipti Desa [15:...

Patrick Bryant He is a serial entrepreneur, professional speaker, and co-founder / CEO of the Charleston-based software product agency CODE/+/TRUST. After co-founding his first company Go To Team, the largest staff video crew provider in the U.S., and taking it to 20 offices around the US 25 years ago, his bio since then is a steady stream of starting new businesses in media, rolling papers, and s...

Michael Hecht Under his leadership, GNO, Inc. has been named a “Top Economic Development Organization in the United States” by Site Selection magazine. He says the past year in Nola may make a bigger impact than the last 15 years of rapid startup growth. New Orleans has experienced nearly $3B in exits over the last year--including the first post-Katrina 'unicorn' Lucid acquired for 1.1B and Levels...

Christian Wachter [00:28] Founded as a German university spin-off at Saarland University, imc learning provides holistic support to more than 1,300 companies, public & educational institutions from all sectors & of all sizes in the planning & implementation of digital training strategies. While imc is rooted in Germany, they’re a global company through & through, with over 400 empl...

Jay Rosenzweig [7:36]: He’s an internationally renowned social impact entrepreneur, humanitarian, trained lawyer, and leadership strategist. The founder of Rosenzweig & Company, Rosenzweig is an expert in designing, building and attracting world class teams. He consults with public and private companies, including large global corporations; emerging growth to mid-sized businesses; professional...

Marie Sutro [0:00] She is an award-winning and bestselling author. In 2018, she won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for the Best New Voice in Fiction, for her debut novel, Dark Associations . Plot: “Following the discovery of her protégé’s mutilated corpse, Kate Barnes vows to capture the infamous serial killer known as The Tower Torturer, known for revisiting history’s darkest forms of cruelty o...

Kent Gregoire In addition to his work with Symphony Advantage, he is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded or led more than a dozen organizations, & an angel investor in purpose-driven companies. He is also one of the first certified conscious capitalism consultants in the world. Jake Clopton His book was just published, Commercial Real Estate Investing: Understanding, Finding, And Fundin...

Michael Lenox [0:00] He’s an award-winning professor, author, speaker, & consultant. For 25+ years, he’s been helping MBA students & executives navigate the competitive dynamics of markets in the face of innovation and disruption. From decarbonization to digital transformation, Mike has extensive expertise on the topics most important to today's executives. As a strategy consultant, he has...

Van Carlson [00:00] He’s the Founder & CEO at SRA. He is an industry leader in enterprise risk management solutions with over 25 years of experience. Along with the responsibility of bringing SRA’s new products to market, he helps clients achieve their financial goals and aid in protecting a business’s assets through times of uncertainty. Jeffrey Chaponick [14:44] With MAC Diversity Recruiters...

Scott Reid [00:00] At Ecommerce Optimizers, he leads the optimization team to consistently deliver the most innovative, effective, and profitable Conversion Optimization & Data Visualization services to D2C Ecommerce brands worldwide. Scott holds an MBA from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of N...

Yoni Rubin [0:00] He founded the SMB budgeting platform called MRGN in 2020, after having a discussion with best friend and business partner, Scott, on a road trip, realizing that they were both “suffering from the same lack of tooling”. Now, with MRGN, business owners have no need for a finance degree or even a CFO, can simulate common scenarios in seconds, and get alerts when their metrics stray...

Dan Markel Rise Medical offers many treatments such as male sexual rejuvenation, female rejuvenation, male hormone analysis, female hormone analysis, make and female hair growth, and male and female chronic pain. Alongside his wife of 30 years, Dan aims to provide a customized, empowering approach to rejuvenating sexual health and discovering true intimacy. Evan Frazier Evan is a corporate executi...

Venkat Atluri & Miklos Dietz [00:00] Venkat Atluri is a senior Partner and global leader of tech/telecom practice at McKinsey, with a successful track record as a catalyst for growth and innovation, fostering and scaling new ventures. Miklos Dietz is a Senior Partner & the Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company's Vancouver office. He led over 400 projects in more than 40 countries worl...

Alex Liu [00:30] Since he joined Kearney as a partner in 1996, he’s worked with many leading firms in the communications, media, & technology sectors in more than 50 countries. He’s honored to be a trusted advisor to CEOs and boards, and to have been named a Top 25 consultant by Consulting magazine. He speaks regularly on matters of culture, justice, and joy, hosting the popular podcast Joy@Wo...

Kien Vuu [0:00] He’s a concierge performance and longevity physician, best-selling author, motivational speaker, and media personality with a commitment of eradicating chronic disease and optimizing human performance and longevity. He was once a minimally invasive surgeon, after overcoming two chronic diseases, he is now a passionate health and human optimization champion and best-selling author o...

Lee Benson [0:00] Execute to Win’s purpose is strengthening communities by improving workplace cultures, their vision is improving the way the world does business, & their mission is to help companies improve their most important number. They believe the result is stronger organizations & healthier communities, built on creating value. Jovana Vojinović [13:29] Nomad Capitalist helps seven-...

Maricella Herrera [0:26] Maricella has been a women’s rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) advocate for 10+ years at Ellevate Network, a certified B corporation that provides networking and professional development resources for the women+ community in the US and overseas. Through her ten-year career at Ellevate Network, she has managed the business through an acquisition, a re-brand,...