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Matteo Cassese is a digital marketer, coach, and entrepreneur who provides training and coaching to individuals, established companies, and startups. His experience spans managing digital marketing for multinational companies (Warner Bros.), teaching at university (Link Campus), and consulting for digital unicorns (Netflix). He's collected the most insightful stories from these experiences as case...

McCoy spent 10 years running environmental education nonprofits in The Bahamas, islands that are full of single-use plastic. After her return to the United States, she and her sister co-founded Plaine Products in February 2017 in order to help minimize single-use plastic and reduce waste in bathrooms across the country. Plaine Products offers premium personal care products in uniquely sustainable...

Jon is a serial entrepreneur and noted speaker about social, sales, and marketing. He has re-imagined CRM by building Nimble - The Simple CRM for Office 365 & G Suite. Ferrara is best known as the co-founder of GoldMine Software Corp, one of the early pioneers in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). He has been recognized by Forbes as one of the Top 1...

Dr. Erika Gray is a UCSF trained pharmacist, educator, national speaker, and co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of ToolBox Genomics and MyToolBox Genomics , a digital platform that takes an individual's genetic test results and offers a virtual toolbox of informative, user-friendly, lifestyle choices and action plans to live the healthiest possible life. With almost 2 decades of experience in th...

Noa Ronen is your out of the box coach. She is also an author, vlogger, disruptor, and coffee lover. She brings more than 20 years of experience in Change Management, Human Resources, Project Management, and coaching. She encourages progressive and social business leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire. Noa's personal relocation experience resulted...

Startuprad.io is an English only startup podcast and YouTube blog – internally only called IO. IO was founded in 2014 by Jörn Menninger, as a spin-off of a – now-defunct – German only audio podcast.  Startuprad.io is a premier English source for exclusive coverage of early and later-stage startups and fintech from Germany, with many world premieres and all exclusive content. Joern is a seasoned ma...

With over 20 years of experience in the international event industry, Sandy Hammer is the co-founder and CMO of Allseated, an award-winning event technology platform with the goal to revolutionize and digitize the event planning process. She began her career as a corporate planner for a high-tech company, running events globally. During that time, she amassed a portfolio of corporate conferences,...

Dinesh  Agarwal is a research scientist turned entrepreneur. He has a Ph. D. in Computer Science and as soon as he walked the stage to get his degree, he also started his journey to become an entrepreneur. He is the founder of RecurPost, a social media scheduler with repeating schedules. He has years of experience in the social media industry and has already sold a company in the social media nich...

Somdip Dey is a Ph. D. Candidate on On-Device Artificial Intelligence at the University of Essex & CEO of Nosh Technologies, an award-winning food tech company offering AI-powered food management to reduce food waste in the household. In 2012, he invented a digital QR authentication system that was adopted by institutes around the world to stop the generation of fake degree certificates. While pur...

Courtney is one of the co-founders of KOYA Innovations, a company aiming to initiate moments of intentional connection. She is also a samba admirer, marketing fanatic, and adventure enthusiast with a background in Psychology and Global Communications. Courtney believes that life is a gift and she is determined to live it with zest. Koya's website: https://getkoya.com/ My website: https://www.ishus...

Melissa Daimler is the founder and CEO of Daimler partners. Melissa has had a long career in learning and organizational development.  She built and scaled the talent, learning, and development functions at Adobe and Twitter.   Melissa's website: www.melissadaimler.com My Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/  

Dr. Eric Daimler is the CEO and Co-Founder of Conexus which is a company that uses category theory to solve data interoperability.  Eric served in the Obama administration as a White House Fellow for Machine Learning and Robotics.  It has been said if AI is the new electricity then data is the new fuel to power it.  We have increased our output of data but our management of data has not kept pace....

Denis is an entrepreneur and President & Co-founder of VidDay.com. VidDay's goal is to make a billion people smile, by offering a collaborative, sustainable, and eco-friendly gifting solution that gives back to the world with every video.   Vidday's website: https://www.vidday.com/   My Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/   My Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz6MZBIYofug6MHg-GItG...

THE (RC)² STORY:   In 2020, (RC)² was launched as a way for marketers to stay up-to-date with the most important trends and insights from the experiential marketing industry. Their mission is to introduce their community to doers and thinkers whose powerful ideas and stories will motivate you. They do this through interviews with marketing leaders who share their stories of both successes and fail...

Jon Newhard, the CEO of Clinc, a leader in conversational AI. Jon is an IT industry veteran and serial entrepreneur, who was previously the CEO of Trafficware and SVP of Michigan-based New World Systems. Clinc provides its customers – primarily banks and financial institutions – with the tools needed to improve their customer support services. Clinc's AI is able to understand unstructured speech a...

Dan Raju is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Tradier. Dan has the overall responsibility of Tradier and the company's strategy and direction. Under his leadership, Tradier has grown rapidly from an innovative product to an essential infrastructure fabric that powers 200 plus investing platforms globally and serving some of the most active traders in the market. In his 25-year career a...

Daniel is a creative strategist and mentor making a positive impact. As the founder of Now Creative Group, Daniel leads a team of creatives and strategists to provide branding and marketing services to startups, nonprofits, and big brands. Daniel is passionate about helping others to create social change and founded the non-profit organization ACCESS in 2006, through which he supports youth who ar...

Hector Lopez is a co-founder and CEO of Instasize. Bootstrapping an app is not an easy task due to high competition unless your app is in a niche without any competition but Instasize did it. The story of Instasize is an inspiration for all the budding apppreneurs. Instasize website: https://instasize.com/ My website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Jutta is the Managing Director for Zeitgeist Communication. She is a Strategy Consultant and passionate about helping leaders and their teams develop powerful and successful strategies to grow their business. She specializes in Public Relations and Marketing Strategies. Jutta's website: www.zeitgeistcomms.com My Website: https://www.ishusingh.com/

Jonathan is a Belgian personal finance blogger & podcaster with a unique approach to life & investing. He believes we're all weird in our own way, so we might as well embrace it. Jonathan holds an MSc degree in business engineering and pulls from a breadth of life experience—he's lived in Norway, Luxembourg, France & Belgium—to tell stories and educate people about money matters. Joney Talks Podca...

After leading marketing efforts for Avvo, Conrad Saam founded Mockingbird Marketing, an online marketing agency focused exclusively on legal, though his principles are widely applicable across the board. He is the author of The FindLaw Jailbreak Guide, a Google Small Business Advisor, and has held positions for multiple ABA's Practice Management marketing committees. He is a frequent presenter at...

Forest Richter is a Milwaukee based entrepreneur with a passion for improving diversity and equity in the startup ecosystem. Forest is the Co-Founder and CEO of Uncrowd.io, a software platform efficiently connecting investors with underrepresented startup founders. Additionally, he oversees the innovation-focused consulting firm, Fresh Coast Labs, and is an equity partner in multiple other startup...

Crista Grasso is a lean business consultant who helps growing businesses achieve more by doing less through a combination of strategic planning and lean business practices. She helps business owners eliminate noise, distractions, and competing priorities by identifying the most important things they should focus on right now that will drive the maximum value for their customers and maximum profits...

Christy Noel is an award-winning marketing executive and the SVP of Marketing at MobileCause, leading fundraising and communications software provider for nonprofits. Christy is the author of Your Career Survival Guide: How To Get And Keep A Job In Times Of Crisis to help professionals navigate their careers to survive and thrive during crises, such as COVID-19. Christy is also, along with her dad...

Why is there so much unauthentic content on social media? Daniel is a graphic designer that's searching for a way to fix this. He is interviewing writers, business owners, marketers, graphic designers - people from all sorts of backgrounds - to hear their stories and see what they're doing to make creative content. This is Midtown Story. Find more about me here: https://www.ishusingh.com/ My youtu...