GSD Venture Studios Podcasts by Gary Fowler

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Kingsley Kobayashi. Guest: Kingsley Kobayashi, Managing Businesses in Asia and Africa.   Kingsley has over 25 years of experience building and managing businesses, with more than $250m in turnover, in Asia and Africa. He has delved deep and engaged in a vast array of fields, ranging from comme...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Deepak Jha. Guest: Deepak Jha, Founder, CEO of Remote Symphony  After two decades of successful career in Corporate America with the likes of General Electric, Accenture, Oracle, and Tata, my entrepreneurial aspirations have taken over. I have the pleasure of founding and leading RemoteSymphon...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Dr. Anurag Rai. Guest: Dr. Anurag Rai, Director, Kalchuri LNCT Group Incubation Centre  Dr. Anurag S D Rai is Director (Innovation, Incubation and Collaboration), Kalchuri LNCT Group Incubation Center, LNCT Group of Institutes & Universities; formerly Executive Officer at AIC-RNTU Foundati...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Beny Rubinstein. Guest: Beny Rubinstein, VP Global Strategy & Innovation & Head of BV Israel Beny is a Senior Strategic Advisor at Evolution. Inc (“We do AI for AI”), leading their global business development and growth strategy. Between 2016 and 2019, Beny led Microsoft’s eCommerce busines...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Greg Slota. Guest: Greg Slota, Master of Science, CEO and co-founder of MeteoTrack   Grzegorz Slota's vision of the inevitable weather around us says that we should start planning any activities by determining its impact. Greg has over 20 years engineering experience in IT. The best technical...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Adrian Niculescu. Guest:  Adrian Niculescu, CEO at TOMORROWerse Capital  + 20 years business experience in building and developing companies + 10,000 students in my online and offline marketing and business courses since 2013 + 30 tech start-ups mentored since 2014 + 500 gigs spoken at ev...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Uria Fiano. Guest:  Uria Fiano, Strategic Advisor and Startup Mentor   Uria Fiano is a strategy expert and independent board advisor with 15 years of experience driving successful go-to-market, growth and expansion plans of Israeli and European tech startups. Driven by his enthusiasm for...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Stratos Davlos. Guest: Stratos Davlos, AI Expert, Partner and Angel Investor Stratos is an executive, investor, master inventor and expert in data science and software engineering. He has two decades of leadership in artificial intelligence and software engineering from Apple, Jio and IBM. He has 5...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Emily Hak. Guest: Emily Hak, Managing Director at Private Capital Markets Emily Hak is the Managing Director of the newly created Private Capital Markets team at Insperity, a national provider of HR solutions. In the role, Hak will help optimize Insperity processes and service offerings, lead marke...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Rafeh Saleh. Guest: Rafeh Saleh, Founding Partner at Cubit Ventures Rafeh launched Cubit Ventures, Founder Institute Egypt, and is an advisor to Toronto based Loyal VC. He previously led one of the largest consulting firms in Egypt. Rafeh is an experienced executive, entrepreneur, and management co...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Marcus Teo. Guest: Marcus Teo, CEO at Image Machine Marcus has experience in AI computer vision, and robotics, and is passionate about creating new technology through engineering. Image Machine uses computer vision technology to recreate people as realistic avatars that reflect them in real time. T...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Sarid Smadar.  Guests: Sarid Smadar, CEO & Co-founder at DragOnFlow Systems Prior to co-founding of DragOnFlow, Sarid co-founded Cellesense Technologies which specialized on NLP for search. Prior to Cellesense, Sarid worked at leading companies such as Nice Systems. Sarid holds a BA degree...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Wolfgang Rams and Enzo Cenci.  Guests: Wolfgang Rams, Co-founder / CFO / COO at Africa GreenTec Wolfgang is the Co-founder / CFO / COO of Africa GreenTec. He has a track record of founding and developing more than 10 businesses, with extensive experience in corporate strategy, and product &amp...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Daniel Kottke. Guest: DK was a close friend of Steve Jobs at Reed College and was the first employee of Apple, building & testing Apple-1’s in the Jobs’ garage in 1976. He was at Apple 8 years, as a technician on the Apple-II, Apple-III and a co-designer of the Macintosh 1981-4. He’s been invol...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Sarah Han. Guest: Sarah Han, manager, business development, KOTRA (Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency) Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency, otherwise known as KOTRA, operates under South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), as the national trade and investment promotion...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Niv Herev-On. Guest: Niv Herev-On, CEO of EneriqsAI Niv Herev-On is the CEO of EneriqsAI which is a software company that developed a predictive AI algorithm that controls and optimizes commercial cooling systems. Niv is an energy-efficiency expert with 15 years of experience in initiating, leading...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Gin Takashi Mizuoka. Guest:  Gin Takashi Mizuoka, Founder and CEO of Upbond  Gin has held a number of positions in tech startups, including as a co-founder of UNDONE JAPAN (a customizable watch brand) and CTO/ investor in Coinbook (a blockchain business).

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Andrew Yates. Guest: Andrew Yates , CEO and Founder of Promoted.ai   Andrew Yates is the CEO and founder of Promoted.ai, a Y Combinator startup company. Formerly, Andrew led ads ranking, auction, and marketplace engineering and research teams at Facebook and Pinterest. He specializes in design...

Join Jordan Wahbeh, Managing Partner of SV Venture Group in a discussion with Gary Fowler on scaling your startup from both inside and outside Silicon Valley. Jordan partners with startups and investors to grow, scale, fund for growth and scale through operations, fundraising, business development, product development, and team leadership. As an leader and advisor, he assists or leads in business...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Kendrick White.  Guest: Kendrick White, Vice Rector for Commercialization at Almaty Management University (AlmaU) Kendrick White has nearly 30 years of experience in corporate finance, VC fund management and angel investing. He is the founder of Marchmont Capital Partners, (2005) a leading tec...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Jerry Geronimo. Guest: Jerry Geronimo, CEO & Co-Founder of Fijo Technologies Inc. Jerry leverages decades of work experience with market pioneers such as Nasdaq (online trading), Tandem Computers (business continuity) & Pitney Bowes (postage meters and mail sorters), to disrupt and replace...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Vivek Chaudhri and Rakesh Sahay. Guests: Vivek Chaudhri, CEO & Co-Founder at SimpliCapital Senior executive with over 20 years experience in leading large-scale business transformations, data strategy/analytics, process innovation and operations excellence for GE across the Americas, Europe and...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Nick Larson. Guest: Nick Larson CRO at Unity Central, Host of Silicon Zombies Nick Larson is an ‘ambitious beach bum,’ focused on empowering creative entrepreneurs with integrity. A Silicon-Valley native, Nick has founded and scaled mission-driven startups, including: -Willow (backed by Google, Gre...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Marina Chilingaryan. Guest: Marina Chilingaryan Sr. Brand & Community Strategist, TikTok Studio Lead at NoGood Marina is an experienced creative brand & community strategist with expertise in brand strategy and community-led growth for VC-backed startups and legacy brands. Marina comes from...

In this Silicon Valley Tech & AI episode presented by GSD Venture Studios Gary Fowler interviews Dr. Irène Kilubi. Guest: Dr. Irène Kilubi Initiator and Organisational Lead, Joint Generations Irène spent several years in companies such as BMW, Siemens and Deloitte. For four years now, she has been anchored in the start-up and online scene, implementing social selling activities and implementin...