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

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...

About John John Estafanous is the founder and CEO of RallyBright , a SaaS team development platform that helps business leaders improve team performance, dynamics and inclusion. John helps business leaders build high-performing, inclusive teams. He works with executive teams and leaders of teams of all sizes and levels at organizations ranging from startups to unicorns, to enterprise tech companie...

About Jerome Jerome joined Narativ in 2007 after the founders, Murray Nossel and Paul Browde, handed him a shoebox full of notes and said, “we think there’s a company in here.” Jerome had recently left a position at BNP Paribas, Hong Kong, and came to New York to pursue a career in filmmaking. He jumped at the challenge—and so began Jerome’s story with Narativ. At Narativ, today Jerome helps...

About Rick Rick Maurer is a speaker, author, consultant, and expert on helping leaders avoid resistance to change period since the publication of his book Beyond the Wall of Resistance in the 1990s, Ricks opinion has been sought by The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBC Nightly News, Fortune, and many other media outlets. Some of the largest companies in the world ask for his advice on ways to avoid r...

About Chans Chans Weber is the Founder and CEO of Agile & Co . Backed up by ten plus years of experience in digital marketing & entrepreneurship, Chans is known for his skill in transforming companies’ visions and goals into tangible revenue. He is responsible for guiding the strategy and evolution of Agile & Co. Through Agile & Co’s transparent, analytics-driven tactics, businesse...

About Swizec Swizec is a software engineer, author, and indie hacker from Slovenia. His career in high growth San Francisco startups changed how he thinks about code and he likes to share those lessons as the senior mindset. Today We Talked About Sr. Engineer Do the annoying stuff for your engineers Perspective Getting Experience Going downhill for a little bit Rest and Vest Why? How to get there?...

About Luke Over the last fifteen years, Luke Arrigoni has worked with some of the top brands in the United States building machine learning and data science programs, even before there was such a term. He worked with companies such as UPS, J&J, Getty, AT&T, Stryker, Goldman Sachs, CAA, FOX, Sephora along with others. Luke has media experience explaining to audiences at Bloomberg, WIRED and...

About Matthew MATTHEW STIBBE is a serial entrepreneur, marketing maven, writer, pilot, and wine enthusiast. But not necessarily in that order. He created marketing strategies, content and campaigns for clients including Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn and HP and contributed to Wired, Forbes and Popular Science. Currently, he is CEO at Articulate Marketing, a UK marketing agency specializing in the tec...

About Yair Yair Riemer is CEO at Intoo, a leading career mobility solution provider for the HR, higher education, and workforce sectors. He has 15+ years experience as a founder/operator in the PeopleTech and EdTech industries building innovative career development solutions. Yair previously served as a President at CareerArc, a leading HRtech company focused on employer brand. Prior to that, he w...

About Michael Michael King, founder and CEO of  TEAMS.COACH, LLC  is a highly sought-after Executive and Business Leadership Coach. He helps business leaders clarify and execute at high levels through his proprietary T.E.A.M.S. Methodology to develop measurable business growth and company-wide collaboration. Michael has close to twenty years of hands-on experience, leading teams, and organizations...

About Steven Steven grew up in a 2-bedroom house with nine siblings. As a living testimony of his transformation program destined to create a superhuman being capable of instantly overcoming fear, self-doubt, and low self-esteem, he has recreated a new path by elevating himself from poor binding backgrounds from his country of origin (Togo-West Africa) to leadership and impactful roles on a global...

About Josh Josh was born in Miami but now lives in Harlem New York with his amazing husband and cat. His favorite food is pizza––is it bad to eat it everyday? A proud HMI.org executive Board Member, Josh loves all animals (except snakes), traveling the world and exploring new cultures, and his great hope is for a world that listens better. His superpower is being a connector and his professional p...

About Pat Patrick Sweet, P.Eng., MBA, PMP, CSEP is a recognized expert in engineering management, productivity, and leadership. He is the president of The Engineering & Leadership Project, which specializes in leadership and management development, training, and consulting for engineers and engineering firms. He also hosts the popular Engineering & Leadership Podcast, a show dedicated to h...