Konaverse

Ashley Cummings is a freelance writer specializing in e-commerce, marketing/advertising, and SaaS.   In this episode, Ashley discusses growing up in Utah, missionary work in Russia, family, career, books, freelancing, writing, community, and so much more.

Heather Margolis is a marketing executive, entrepreneur, part-time foodie, and SVP of Marketing at 360insights. She is formerly founder and CEO of Channel Maven Consulting and Spark Your Channel. In this episode, Heather talks about Massachusetts, sports, Colorado, entrepreneurship, channel marketing, Babson College, coaching/mentorship, acquisition, and so much more.

Polly Pospelova is Digital Marketing Director at UNRVLD.  In this episode, Polly talks about growing up in Ukraine, family, England, technology, digital marketing, snowboarding, and much more.

Michael Andrews is Content Strategy Evangelist at Kentico Software.  In this episode, Michael talks about growing up in Arlington, VA, education and studies, China, content strategy trends, reading, and much more.

Anisa Stoli Sanipe, Konabos Marketing Director, and Stacey Grant-Lewis, Konabos Senior Project Manager, host their first episode of the Konaverse.  Discussion touches on growing up, race, belonging, children, and the global experience.

Andrew Kumar is Director of Platform Strategy at Contentful.  In this episode, Andrew talks about growing up in Vancouver, British Columbia, his parents immigrating from Fiji, college, entrepreneurship, moving to Toronto, and much more!

Michael Thompson is Enterprise Account Executive at Optimizely.  In this episode, Michael discusses growing up in New Hampshire, family, technology, sales, why he and his family moved to North Carolina, and much more!

Grace Hussein is Vice President, Head of Digital Product Management at a global investment manager.  In this episode, Grace talks about growing up in Queens, family, her time in the military, living in different U.S. cities, getting into web and digital, hobbies, adoption, and much more.

Today, Sitecore announced its 2022 Sitecore MVPs.  Konabos team members earned eight Sitecore MVP awards.  On this episode, six of our MVPs - Kamruz Jaman, Akshay Sura, Dennis Augustine, Hugo Santos, Rachna Gupta, and Mostafa Hanafi - join to talk about the accomplishment, give tips on how to get involved in the Sitecore community, and celebrate with one another.  Notably, Kamruz earned his 10th,...

Bart Omlo is Managing Director at Kontent by Kentico.  In this episode, Bart talks about growing up in the Netherlands, family, twelve years in the military, leadership, and his life in the technology business.

Bill Snyder is Co-Founder & Vice President, Strategy and Relationships at Charley.  In this episode, Bill talks about growing up in Livingston, NJ, family, finding his passion in creative pursuits, college in Iowa, Vietnam War, working in television, starting companies, and much more!

Tamas Varga is Manager, Community Programs at Sitecore.  In this episode, Tamas discusses growing up in Hungary, the switch from communism to capitalism, education, technology, travel, Sitecore, community, family, sailing and much more.

Konabos Partners Kamruz Jaman, Akshay Sura, and Dennis Augustine talk about how Konabos began, the current state of the company, effects of COVID-19, pivots, and what the future holds as Konabos turns five years old in 2022.  

Hosts Akshay Sura and Matthew McQueeny are joined by Executive Producer Morgan Blackett to reflect on the first six months of the Konaverse podcast. 

Rich Carroll is Director, Partner Enablement at Sitecore.  In this episode, Rich talks about growing up in Chicago, family, photography, sales, and working in technology.  

Petr Palas is the Founder and CEO of Kentico.  In this episode, Petr discusses growing up in the Czech Republic, his passion for technology, how he started Kentico, the transition to headless/jamstack, and much more!

Michael D'Orio is the Vice President of Marketing at American Bath Group.  In this episode, Michael talks about growing up in Maine, college in Tennessee, continuous learning, endurance sports, the transformation at American Bath Group, farming, and much more!

David M. Wright is Founder & CEO of Disruptive Innovations.  In this episode, David talks about growing up in New Jersey, family, technology, entrepreneurship, innovation, and sales.  

Mark Demeny is Head of Product Strategy at Uniform and has previously served senior positions at Optimizely, Contentful, and Sitecore.  In this episode, Mark talks about emigrating to Canada from Hungary, language, growing up in technology, strategy, the marketplace's pivot to Jamstack/Headless, curling, and much more!

Pieter Brinkman is Senior Director Technical Marketing at Sitecore.  In this episode he talks about growing up in The Netherlands, how he came to technology, Sitecore, raising children, windsurfing, and home automation.

Anisa Stoli Sanipe is Digital Marketing Director at Konabos.  In this episode, she discusses growing up in Greece, moving to Canada at 12 years old, learning languages, teaching, entrepreneurship, and the plan to move back to Greece with her own growing family.

Brad Gustavesen, CMO, and Jon Gibbs, Partner Program Manager, of Slatwall Commerce join the podcast to discuss Ultra Commerce's acquisition of Slatwall and Slatwall's integration with Kontent by Kentico.  

Chirag Patel is a director at Avanade.  In this episode, Chirag discusses emigrating to America from India, growing up in Virginia and the Midwest, military experience, and finding his way in technology.

Adam Alson is the founder of DoubleDown. Digital.  In this episode, Adam talks about the effect technology had on his early life, learning sales and product development from his father, working in professional sports, and building his own company.  

Andrew Hilts, Hannah Cormier, and Brenden Yip are part of Konabos' "Content Army."  The three talk about how they know each other, gaming, creating a business unit, Jamstack and Composable DXP, and the trio's eclectic backgrounds.