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Swinburne Augustine, Ph. D is a Research Microbiologist/Immunologist.  Swinburne talks about growing up in Dominica; a varied career that has included banker, police officer, radio news reporter, airborne soldier, Ph. D; and the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Lars Nielsen is a co-founder of Sitecore and is now an investor at Nordic Makers.  In this episode, Lars talks about growing up in and around Copenhagen, family, finding his passion in technology, the origin story of Sitecore, entrepreneurial stories, and so much more!

Vojtěch Bořil is the Vice President of Growth & Marketing at Kentico Kontent.  In this episode, Vojtěch talks about growing up in The Czech Republic, living through his country's shift to capitalism, family, business, endurance sports, and so much more!

Stacey Grant-Lewis is a senior project manager at Konabos Consulting Inc. and the founder of Culture x Co, an online resource for anti-racism and cultural education for adults and children.  In this episode, Stacey discusses immigrating to Central Florida at ten years old, the experience of racism, her early love of art history, technology, and health.

Featuring Sameer Maggon, Mostafa Hanafi, Mike Edwards, Matthew McQueeny, John West, Mark Servais, Anindita Bhattacharya, Hugo Santos, Dom Nicastro, Derek Dysart, Bruce Davis-Goff, Andrew Hilts, Marc Lamothe, Dennis Augustine, and Kamruz Jaman.

Matthew McQueeny works in digital and project management at Konabos Consulting Inc. In this episode, he discusses growing up in New Jersey, his upbringing, family, NYU, being in New York on 9/11, the New Jersey Nets, content, technology, and so much more!

Dennis Augustine is a Partner at Konabos Consulting Inc.  In this episode, Dennis talks about Dominica, growing up in Oakville, Ontario, family, going to seminary and being a minister for a decade, technology, horrific tragedy, picking up the pieces, and so much more.

Konabos Consulting Inc. Partner Akshay Sura recaps his early summer family road trip from California to Florida and back.  Akshay talks about how the Tesla held up, crazy rain showers, conversations on the road, close calls, family, unplugging from work, good food, and so much more.

Kamruz Jaman is a partner at Konabos Consulting Inc. and an eight-time Sitecore MVP.  In this episode, Kam talks about his birthplace of Bangladesh, family, growing up in England, finding his way into technology, and growing his own family in Canada.

Marc Lamothe is CMS Systems Admin at American Bath Group.  In this episode, Marc talks about growing up in Quebec, career pivots, and the grief of losing his wife to pancreatic cancer.

Vojtech Boril, VP Growth & Marketing at Kontent, and Tim Benniks, Principal Developer Advocate at Uniform, join the show to talk about the exciting announcement of Uniform for Kentico Kontent integration.

Dom Nicastro is a Boston-based senior reporter at Simpler Media Group, publisher of CMSWire and Reworked.  In this episode, Dom talks about growing up in Gloucester, Massachusetts, finding his passion and coming of age in journalism, Boston sports, digital reporting, and much more.

Mike Edwards is the Director of Technology at Konabos Consulting Inc.  In this episode, Mike talks about family, being a twin, growing up and staying in the Southwest of England, personal training, technology, motorbikes, remote work, career, and much more!

Sameer Maggon is the Founder & CEO of SearchStax.  In this episode, Sameer discusses growing up in India, catching the technology bug, entrepreneurship, search, and building his life and business in Southern California.

Mostafa Hanafi is Program Manager at Konabos Consulting Inc.  In this episode, Mostafa talks about growing up in Egypt, his family, working in and adjusting to Canada, raising two young girls, finding his place in technology, and much more.

Hugo Santos is a Sitecore Technology MVP and the Head of Search Practice at Konabos Consulting Inc.  In this episode, Hugo talks about growing up in and returning to Brazil, living and working in Quebec for six years, technology, search, entrepreneurship, parenthood, and hobbies.

Ravi joins to talk about working to become a dentist, and most importantly, his battles with alcohol and drug addiction.  Ravi is the eldest brother of Akshay Sura, a partner at Konabos Consulting Inc.

Anindita Bhattacharya is a Sitecore Solutions Architect at Konabos Consulting Inc. In this episode, she joins with her husband - Kanda Ganesan - to talk about their move to the countryside and Kanda's change of career from technology consulting to farming.  

Konabos Consulting Inc. Partner Akshay Sura talks about his upcoming family road trip from California to Florida.  The discussion touches on the decision-making process, traveling with kids, unplugging from the normal day-to-day, and using an electric vehicle (Tesla) for the trip.

Bruce Davis-Goff is APAC Operations Director at Konabos Consulting Inc.  In this episode, Bruce discusses growing up and life in New Zealand, odd jobs, finding his way into technology, losing a loved one and working through profound grief.

Martin Malenovsky, a product manager at Kentico Kontent, joins to discuss Kontent's new Web Spotlight functionality and the state of the Headless CMS.   https://kontent.ai/blog/web-spotlight-visual-website-building-headless-cms https://github.com/Kentico/kontent-smart-link#add-button  

Andrew Hilts is a senior front-end developer at Konabos Consulting Inc. Andrew talks about growing up in New Jersey, being a project manager for big construction jobs as a teenager, emigrating to Canada, finding his place in technology, his mental struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic and related lockdowns, and much more.

Derek Dysart is a Sitecore/CMS platform consultant and a Sitecore MVP.  Derek talks about changing careers from Technology to Voice-Over acting, COVID-19 challenges, advice to his younger self, and much more.

Mark Servais is a Senior Applications Architect at Humana and a Sitecore MVP.  Mark talks about Caregiving, family, automation, effects of COVID-19, and much more.

John West is a consultant for Contentstack, a headless CMS platform, and a Sitecore Lifetime MVP.  John talks about his history in technology, his charitable work in Laos, and so much more.