The Cred Podcast

In this episode of The Cred Podcast, we sit down with Gary Mittman, Founder/CEO of KERV Interactive, a patented, award-winning AI platform that creates shoppable and interactive elements within video. Gary shares his unconventional career trajectory, from starting out in the entertainment industry to venturing into the world of digital startups, and eventually founding the only AI technology conte...

Get ready for an inspiring journey into the world of values-driven leadership and groundbreaking career training. We are thrilled to present the latest episode of The Cred Podcast featuring the incredible Bharani Rajakumar, a visionary leader with a mission and the CEO of Transfr. Join us as we delve into Bharani's values-driven approach to life and leadership, exploring the core principles that h...

Join us in this episode of The Cred Podcast as we sit down with Erica Irvin, Group Vice President and Chief Counsel of Digital Technology and Innovation at Albertsons Companies. With over 25 years of experience, Erica shares her remarkable career journey, decision-making insights, and future aspirations. Discover the power of seizing opportunities, aligning decisions with organizational goals, and...

Mack McKelvey, entrepreneur and 20+ year business executive joins as the host for Season 2. After a multi-year hiatus, the Cred Podcast returns to showcase innovative business authorities who are transforming their industries. In the teaser, Mack gives the backstory on the theme of the season and a preview of the executives she will be interviewing.

In 2006 David Williams was a founding executive of PatientsLikeMe, a digital community of sorts that relies on people sharing their health experiences then pooling that information into data that can help industry improve healthcare. In that role he purported the concept of openness in healthcare data -- a decidedly contrarian view in the privacy-obsessed arena of healthcare. In this Credentialed...

When David Williams first started talking to investors about his healthcare platform Care3, he hesitated to emphasize the fact that the technology was developed in part for underserved communities. Eventually, though he changed his tune and began to include the fact that the platform -- which connects caregivers and patients -- was built with people of color, the disabled and other underserved sen...

The rules around maternity leave and the FLMA could use some updating, suggests Carol Davidsen of Comscore, our guest on The Credentialed podcast in this BonusCast episode. "It's amazing to me how so many work environments today have things like bringing your dog to work – which is great – but...I think we really need to reevaluate what does having a kid look like in the first year, because...fran...

Carol Davidsen made a name for herself in the world of political data tech through her work with the Obama 2012 campaign, back when media coverage of data use in the election was decidedly more positive than it is these days in the wake of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. While at Obama for America, she developed technologies for building voter profiles and gained notoriety for the platfo...

In this BonusCast segment from our discussion with Kimberly Mach of Microsoft Research Next, Mach discusses her love of sci-fi novels and how they relate to her work today.

Kimberly Mach is somewhat elusive when asked about what she and her fellow researchers are working on at Microsoft Research Next, a division of the company that Business Insider recently referred to as its "A-team of troubleshooting scientists." But having a hush-hush job isn't exactly new to Mach, either – she joined Microsoft in early 2017, following several years in the defense industry working...

Just in time for sweeping new privacy regulations going into effect in Europe, we chatted with Kirsten McMullen, chief privacy officer of mobile ad firm 4Info, about the distinctions between the way government in Europe and the US treat privacy. In Europe, says McMullen, "I liken it to freedom of speech in the US; it's just a core value." Listen to this Credentialed BonusCast now!

Kirsten McMullen has a tough job. As chief privacy officer and VP of compliance at mobile ad tech firm 4Info, she serves as an internal watchdog, helping to steer her company, one operating in the cut-throat, fast-paced and increasingly sophisticated world of consumer data, toward the best data privacy practices possible. To do that, she relies on what she refers to as her own "core ethic," one th...

"How much better would the world be if there were many more women running companies?" asks Veda Hlubinka-Cook, founder of open information platform Factful. On this Credentialed Podcast BonusCast, she explains how her gender transition improved her cognition and management style, and discusses why the top down, command and control, 20th-century military style approach to management "is clearly out...

On this Credentialed Podcast BonusCast, Veda Hlubinka-Cook, founder of open information platform Factful, suggests that the counter-cultural, queer legacy of the San Francisco Bay area, still present when she moved there in the '90s, has "been steamrollered over in large part because of the technology industry." Hear why Hlubinka-Cook believes that while, a lot of people in tech "mean really well…...

"Openness is a counterweight to the secrecy that powerful people use to subjugate us…. We have to pool our resources together, get the right team and go after it." Veda Hlubinka-Cook does not mince words. An early pioneer of digital information infrastructure and trans technologist, Hlubinka-Cook co-founded Metaweb, a firm that developed an open, shared database of knowledge called Freebase which...

We've been hearing more and more about facial recognition and biometric identification technology lately, and this week's guest on The Credentialed is on the cutting edge of this emerging realm. Brian Brackeen is CEO and founder of Kairos, a six-year-old facial recognition and "human analytics" firm based in Miami which serves clients such as Disney and Walmart. An outspoken proponent of algorithm...

There's more from Brian Brackeen, CEO of facial recognition tech firm Kairos, when he shares on The Credentialed his enthusiasm for Miami as an ideal place for tech entrepreneurs-of-color to launch startups and generate funding, as well as foster great work-life balance. "It's infinitely fairer to say" that Miami is a better place for entrepreneurs-of-color to generate fundraising than places like...

Want more from our chat with Jasmin Hume, director of food chemistry at Just? You've got it. In this bonus segment, we discuss how Jasmin and her team use data automation, predictive modeling and machine learning to  query large volumes of data and screen plants for functional proteins.

You've probably seen Just's vegan mayo on grocery store shelves, or maybe you've had their plant-based cookie dough concoction as a late night snack. Perhaps you've seen the open letters the company's CEO Josh Tetrick has splashed across full page ads in the New York Times -- like the one he addressed to presidential candidates in 2015 challenging them to help solve our outdated food system. Follo...

We laughed! We cried! We learned about blockchain! Yes, indeed, we've come a long way in just ten episodes here at The Credentialed, the show that amplifies the diverse voices of tech and innovation. That's right, we've got ten episodes under our belts, and that's a good a reason as any to take a step back and remind our listeners – and ourselves – just what it is we're doing here. We're calling t...

Pam Dixon of World Privacy Forum shares her tips for taking action to safeguard personal data privacy.

This is the last generation in the U.S. who will have what Pam Dixon, this week's guest on The Credentialed, calls "privacy by obscurity." Founder and executive director of World Privacy Forum, Dixon believes there is a short window of time left during which any of us living here in the United States, not to mention most places on earth, will have the ability to go "off the grid" - obscure our tra...

When we think tech, we often think of gadgets, software, computers, pixels and bots. But on this episode of The Credentialed, we're getting down to basics. We're talking about clean, safe water and a simple innovation that's designed to make it more plentiful, accessible and affordable across the globe. Theresa Dankovich, Ph. D. is cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of Folia Water, an unlikely...

Blockchain. Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency. You've heard about these things, but, well, if you're like a lot of people, you aren't totally clear on what they are. On this episode of The Credentialed, we have a full-fledged blockchain expert explainer on the show, Portia Burton. Burton explains how blockchain works in everyday language, talks about blockchain mining in Venezuela and China, and suggests th...

In this encore of the very first episode of The Credentialed, we talk to Rachel Law, CEO of chatbot and collaborative shopping technology Kip, to discuss the company, learn how it can help niche communities – from crochet enthusiasts to Japanese immigrants, chat about the Internet as a place for personal development, and even get some tips for startup fundraising. It's not often that we hear about...