The Career Channel (Audio)

Loren Bendele is the CEO of Savings.com. He co-founded the business in March of 2007. Prior to Savings.com Loren ran Teleflora's Partner Marketing business, selling through key relationships including USAA, UPS, American Express, Sears, JC Penney, American Airlines, United Airlines, Continental Airlines, and other large partnerships. Loren started his career with Dow Chemical, initially as a chemi...

Davis Waxman, former SpotRunner, PeoplePC, and Firefly Network co-founder, is the managing partner of TenOneTen, a Los Angeles venture firm that focuses on technology-focused startups. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 25563]

There are a large variety of web-based technologies available. What are they? How are they used? Which ones are the most popular? All these questions will be answered and many more. Training and career opportunities will also be discussed. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 25686]

Get updated on the current state of the healthcare industry, learn about the skills and experience needed to successfully gain employment as a Case Manager in the field and how the courses and programs at UC San Diego Extension can help your career. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 25685]

Big Bang! is the annual UC Davis Business Plan Competition, hosted by the UC Davis Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and organized by MBA students of the Graduate School of Management. Find out the winners of this year’s competition. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 25193]

Get updated on the current state of the healthcare industry, learn about the skills and experience needed to successfully gain employment as a Case Manager in the field and how the courses and programs at UC San Diego Extension can help your career. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 25347]

Author and Career Counselor Robin Ryan focuses on turbo charging your career by offering strategies and techniques to promote your personal brand as you pursue more promising and satisfying work. This conversation with San Diego Business Journal’s Executive Editor Reo Carr is presented as part of the 2013 Career Boost Camp, sponsored by UC San Diego. Series: "Career Channel" [Business] [Show ID: 2...

Host Peter Cowhey of UC San Diego leads an enlightening discussion with Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs, Vizio CEO William Wang, former Gateway CEO Ted Waitt and journalist James Fallows on strategies to bring manufacturing jobs to the United States while keeping their companies competitive in the global marketplace. The program is presented by The Atlantic Meets the Pacific, CONNECT and the School of In...

What are the career opportunities in the burgeoning craft brewing industry? In this Career Channel presentation, job seekers will learn the answers from a panel of experts that includes Stone Brewing founder Greg Koch, Lost Abbey brewer Tomme Arthur, Ballast Point brewer and co-founder Yuseff Cherney, and the founder of White Labs Inc. Pure Yeast and Fermentation, Chris White, who converse about w...

San Diego’s Stone Brewing Co. is a juggernaut in the craft brewing industry, with national distribution and new locations popping up around the region -- even a hotel! Stone’s founder, Greg Koch, takes a break from the opening night festivities for San Diego History Center’s exhibit, “Bottled & Kegged: San Diego’s Craft Brew Culture,” to share with the Career Channel his passionate opinions about...

How can you get started in crowdfund investing? Jason W. Best, Principal, Crowfund Capital Advisors and Sherwood Niess, Principal, Crowdfund Capital Advisors talk about what it means for investors and businesses. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 24511]

Gurbaksh Chahal is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Radium One. A die-hard internet entrepreneur, he started his first company, at the age of 16. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 24409]

Leslie Bottorff joined ONSET Ventures in 1998 after 19 years in the medical industry. At ONSET Ventures, Leslie specializes in medical technology investment opportunities. She has worked closely with several portfolio company entrepreneurs at the seed stage to formulate and validate their companies’ business plans, including Embolic Protection, where she was interim VP of Marketing and Business De...

Dean Steven Currall moderates a conversation with Sandy Weill, Former Chairman/CEO of Citigroup, and his wife, Joan Weill, followed by a discussion about the future of pension plans with Anne Simpson, Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments and Director of Corporate Governance, California Public Employee’s Retirement System (CalPERS) Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speake...

Marc Onetto, senior vice president of worldwide operations and customer service at Amazon.com Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 24925]

John Mackey, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and author of “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business” offers a spirited defense of free enterprise and argues that businesses can have a positive societal impact while being profitable. Q&A moderated by Dean and Professor Steven Currall. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special...

John Ferriter joined Octagon in 2010 as managing director of Octagon Entertainment. An Emmy-nominated producer, he has been instrumental in packaging and selling some of the most popular shows on television, including “Project Runway,” “The Biggest Loser,” numerous Garth Brooks specials, “Chelsea Lately” and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” to name a few. He has also helped sign, develop and exp...

Sarah Penna is a veteran of the digital production space having held senior roles at Current TV, MWG Media, & DeFranco Inc. Drawing from her brand management and production experience, Sarah co- founded Big Frame, a media company and talent management firm in Los Angeles, and has overseen the careers of several successful online video creators. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from N...

John Lusk is the author of the best-selling book, The MouseDriver Chronicles which follows the invention and launch of a computer mouse that looks like a golf-club head. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Rivet & Sway, an online source for prescription eyewear. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24429]

A professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan for 23 years, Sridhar Kota worked on a one-year fellowship at the White House as assistant director for advanced manufacturing helping to identify strategies and policies that strengthen the U.S. manufacturing base. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 24410]

While a freshman at UCSB, Matt Vlasach founded Pacific Swell Networks, Inc., an outsourced IT services company, with a business partner in Los Angeles. In 2010, Matt sold off Pacific Swell Networks and joined Unwired Revolution, an enterprise mobility consulting and integrating firm. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24274]

Don Charlton refers to himself as a "pixel pusher.” In 2009, he designed, built and launched The Resumator, a recruiting platform which recently earned a spot on Entrepreneur magazine's list of 100 Brilliant Companies. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24428]

Anne Simpson is the Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments and Director of Corporate Governance at CalPERS. It is the largest public pension system in the United States with approximately $224 billion under management. She addresses incoming MBA students at UC Davis about the role of companies and corporations today and historically. She also explores corporate governance and how it needs to be ref...

Chris Cox, the Vice President of Product at Facebook, talks about what it’s like to be part of one of the fastest growing and most disruptive companies on the planet. Cox is interviewed by Alexis Madrigal, the Senior Editor of The Atlantic. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 23983]

Marten Mickos shares the benefits and challenges involved in building businesses in the open source and cloud computing spaces. As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. He is now CEO of Eucalyptus Systems whose underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Since its origin as an academic r...