A Geek Leader Podcast - inspiring technical and creative leaders around the world

About Jeff As a software, mechanical, and manufacturing engineer, Jeff designed and developed a lot of products and processes. Now Jeff builds people. This is where his joy and professional satisfaction comes from—being a part of helping others succeed and grow. Every person is unique and has different challenges. For years, Jeff has had the pleasure of supporting engineers and software pros from...

About Lucy Lucy Chow is a Canadian and has been an expat for for close to 25years. China, Hong Kong, New York and most recently, 16 years in Dubai. Appearing in Life on the Move and The Possibilities Project has given her the impetus to focus on writing her own book. Lucy contributes regularly to entrepreneurship, corporate innovation, and investor events and forums as a speaker, moderator and jud...

About Jodi Jodi Daniels is a Certified Informational Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) with more than 20 years of experience helping a range of businesses from solopreneurs to multi-national companies in privacy, marketing, strategy, and finance roles. During her corporate career, she proved a valuable asset to companies like Deloitte, The Home Depot, Cox Enterprises, Bank of America where she most r...

About Christopher Christopher is the President and CEO of Storewise , Inc., a technology company that builds automation software for food retailers. Over the past 24 months, during the height of the pandemic, Storewise nearly tripled in growth, and maintained a 99% customer retention rate, far exceeding the average for a software company. Plus, according to Glassdoor, 70% of the employees recommen...

About Jamin Jamin Warren founded Twofivesix, a strategic consultancy that helps brands engage in the world of gaming. His work helps you reach the right gaming audience on the right platform with the right message. He also served as an advisor for the Museum of Modern Art’s design department, acted as cluster chair for the Gaming category for the Webbys, and hosted Game/Show for PBS Digital Studio...

About Eric Eric is a talented data science professional, with a Master’s in Predictive Analytics from Northwestern University. Prior to Consensus, Eric worked at the sports entertainment company DraftKings, where he served as an Analytics Specialist building predictive machine learning models to better understand the user base. Eric came up with the idea for Consensus after spending years as...

About Matthew Matthew Scullion is the founder and CEO of Matillion, the leading provider of enterprise cloud data integration. Matthew has dedicated his career to making data useful, founding Matillion in 2011. Today Matillion serves thousands of customers across the globe, closely partnered with key players in data infrastructure including AWS, Microsoft, Google, Snowflake and Databricks, and has...

About Damien Damien is the founder and CEO of Scalable Path , a software staffing agency that matches leading companies and startups with vetted, remote software developers. Since Scalable Path was founded in 2010, the company has amassed a freelance network of over 23,000 software developers in 177 countries. Previously, he headed PHP development at SolutionSet, where he spent five months managin...

About Chuck Chuck Mollor is the founder, CEO and an executive coach of MCG Partners. We are a leadership and talent optimization firm aligning your business and people strategy for optimal business results. As an executive coach and strategic advisor, Chuck determines if leadership and culture are aligned to their business strategy and then develops and implements solutions to drive and attain res...

About Denis Denis O’Shea founded Mobile Mentor in New Zealand in 2004. Since then, the company has helped millions of people unlock the full potential of their technology. In 2017, O’Shea moved to Nashville, Tennessee to launch the company’s US business, with a focus on securing the mobile workforce in industries such as healthcare, education, finance and government services. Mobile Mentor is a gl...

About Phillip In his day job, Phillip Kane is a husband, father, and caring leader.  He has had a successful business career of more than 30 years in some of the world’s best-known corporations.  Working for brands like Goodyear, Pirelli, Rothschild, and NAPA, Kane has had the privilege to lead thousands of individuals and has managed billions of dollars in value for stakeholders.  Consistently re...

About Chris Christopher D. Kolenda, Founder of the Strategic Leaders Academy, helps consultants, experts, and owners grow a meaningful, joyful, and profitable business. You get these outcomes by leading as your best self, Building an Inspiring Culture (TM), and making the pivotal decisions that create sustainable success. Chris is both warrior and diplomat, combining assertiveness and statesmanshi...

About Ryan Ryan Buick is the Co-Founder of Canvas, a Sequoia-backed startup that is reimagining the traditional office suite for a data-driven world. Before Canvas, Ryan was one of the first Product Managers at Flexport. At Flexport, Ryan met his co-founders and saw how difficult it was for business teams to get the data they needed without knowing SQL or having to rely on technical teams for help...

About Jim Jim Jachetta is the driving force behind VidOvation’s world-class technology that makes the “impossible” and “never been done before” a viable solution within your daily business operations. Using modern, easy to support technology, Jim and the talented VidOvation team creatively design, implement, and support wireless, cellular, IPTV, video over IP, and fiber optics installations that m...

About Nicole Nicole is a passionate design leader who thrives on finding user-centered solutions to complex problems. Her leadership provides figurative (and sometimes actual) glue for creative collaboration. Working at Uplevel, her team creates product solutions to be simple, functional, and beautifully designed. With a BFA in Design from Cornish College of the Arts, she has 20 years of experienc...

About Katie Katie Burkhart puts a point on business. She’s the mastermind behind MatterLogic ™, the simple system for running a purpose-driven business, and has quickly become one of the go-to experts in the space. She’s also a serial entrepreneur building the Matter ecosystem, including Matter 7 and MatterPulse . Defining matter as worth the time, these companies deliver critical focus, perspecti...

About Robert Robert Cooke is the Founder and Principal Architect at 3Forge, a New York-based provider of data virtualization and visualization technology. Before starting 3Forge, Robert served in senior-level positions at Tier One banks JPMorgan Chase and Bear Stearns and the dark pool Liquidnet. Robert has an unmatched passion for all things computer science. With over 100,000 hours of software d...

About Victoria Dr. Victoria M Grady is the Academic Director of the MSM Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Management/Organizational Behavior in the School of Business at George Mason University.   Victoria is also the Professor in Residence for the Healthcare People and Change Practice for FORVIS based out of Charlotte, NC.  Victoria’s research portfolio focuses on the behavioral implica...

About Perry PERRY CARPENTER, C|CISO, MSIA,  currently serves as chief evangelist and strategy officer for  KnowBe4 , the world’s most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform. A recognized thought leader on security awareness and the human factors of security, he’s provided security consulting and advisory services for the world’s best-known brands. His previous book,  Trans...

About Douwe Douwe Maan is the Founder and CEO of Meltano, an open source platform for the complete DataOps lifecycle. Spun out of GitLab In early 2021, Douwe took charge at Meltano and went on to raise $4.2M in Seed funding led by GV. Douwe became a successful developer at a young age, Co-Founding his first company at age 18. He would be happy to speak about DevOps, DataOps, open source data and j...

About W. Curtis W. Curtis Preston (AKA Mr. Backup) has specialized in designing data protection systems since 1993, and has designed such systems for some of the largest organizations in the world. His lively prose and wry, real-world approach has made him a popular author and speaker. He has written four O’Reilly books, the latest of which is Modern Data Protection, published in 2021. He is also...

About Raghu Raghu Bala is CEO, NetObjex Inc based in California USA.  He is an experienced technology entrepreneur and is an alumnus of Yahoo, Infospace, PwC, and has had 4 successful startup exits.  Focused on Web3/NFT/Defi/Metaverse/IOT/AI. Four exits. Wharton/MIT/Columbia/Stanford. Now the CTO of Kresus Labs. Mr. Bala possesses an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvan...

About Jim James G. Wetrich, LFACHE is the CEO of The Wetrich Group of Companies and the author of Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong. His writing has also appeared in the 2021 anthology series Quitless: The Power of Persistence in Business and Life, a USA Today and WSJ best seller. Having led teams in three continents over more than 40 years and consulted with over 100 companies, Jim has seen gr...

About David David Kakish is the founder and President of RIA WorkSpace. It’s his belief that small and midsize Registered Investment Advisors and Financial Advisors are different than other businesses. He likes to think of these RIAs as the Small Giants in the financial services industry. David is committed to higher standards and easier access to enterprise level IT and cyber security for small a...

About Joshua Joshua is a successful serial entrepreneur, technology executive and investor. He has started multiple businesses, helping scale them to 150+ people and $100m+ in revenue. Today, he is CEO @  Mindstone  and a Venture/Limited Partner @  Emerge Education , focusing on building a platform that helps people learn faster, remember more and get things done. Previously, he was Co-Founder &#3...