Through the Noise

Michael Gips is an attorney, security professional, business executive, and journalist. Frequently cited in both security literature and the mainstream press, Mike has written more than 1,000 articles on all aspects of security and has presented at scores of conferences, webcasts, and other events. Global Insights in Professional Security (GIPS), LLC, provides thought leadership, security strategy...

Originally from Australia, Andrew McCusker began his career at Goldman Sachs, serving as Executive Director of Global Investment Research, and later moved to Nairobi to work for Bridge International Academies as part of the Global Corporate Finance team. He holds a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of Melbourne and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Opportunity EduFinance believes t...

Virtual interactions are more common than ever as we stay at home and live-streamed events and webinars are becoming more widespread. Ernesto and Mickey sit down and discuss the pros and cons of live streaming, what challenges it carries, and when it is better to stream instead of publish your content. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital secu...

In 2005, after a trip to his local landfill, Keller was inspired to create a pocket-sized reusable bag to compete with the convenience of single-use plastic bags. Keller's mission to help humanity bag the single-use habit has contributed to helping millions of people start a healthy reusable bag habit by making reusable bags unforgettably compact. ChicoBag and To-Go Ware - 2 Brands with one missio...

Elliot Haspel is an early childhood policy expert and the author of Crawling Behind: America's Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It. He lives in Richmond, VA with his wife and two young daughters. Crawling Behind asks a simple question: If child care is, like public education, critical both to the economy and children's development, why isn't it free?

Ernesto and Mickey tackle Data Containers in our latest insights. How do they work? When should you use them? Control your software's environment, optimize your process, and advance your work with containers. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new software, technologies, trends, regulations that may impact leaders of organizations....

Dr. Marcus Eriksen is the author of Junk Raft, founder and executive director of 5 Gyres, and founder and executive director of Leap Lab . 20 expeditions across the world's oceans to study ocean plastics have led to a handful of research publications to better understand this new environmental catastrophe, but the first voyage was a homemade raft, JUNK RAFT, floating on plastic bottles crossing th...

Jerry Schwartz is the Senior Director of Energy and Environmental Policy at the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), as well as AF&PA's Sustainability Team Leader. He is responsible for AF&PA's Better Practices, Better Planet 2020 sustainability initiative, which includes one of the most extensive sets of sustainability goals established for a U.S. manufacturing industry. The American Fore...

Ralph Bianculli Jr. is a Managing Director of Emerald Brand, a sustainable consumables product company headquartered in New York. He continues to drive sustainability and focuses on educating the private and public sector on sustainable initiatives. Innovators in material technology since 1997, Emerald Brand is committed to educating the entire disposable supply chain on the benefits of using Tree...

In this episode of Insights, Ernesto and Mickey talk about the value SQL systems still have, how they differ from NoSQL systems, the ways they both access data, and their role in machine learning. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new software, technologies, trends, regulations that may impact leaders of organizations. Listen to t...

In this episode of Insights, Ernesto and Mickey talk about Donor Management Systems, the right approach to choosing or changing one, requirement identification, system integration, and long term satisfaction. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new software, technologies, trends, regulations that may impact leaders of organizations....

Babu Sivadasan, co-founder and CEO of JIFFY.ai, is a passionate serial entrepreneur with public company experience, is an active angel investor and mentor, and is an engineer at heart. Prior to JIFFY.ai, Babu co-founded and led Envestnet (NYSE: ENV) in a variety of leadership roles and was also the co-founding CTO of Stamps.com (Nasdaq: STMP). JIFFY.ai delivers an app-based, enterprise-level intel...

Opportunity International CEO Atul Tandon's career has been marked by successfully conceptualizing, building, scaling and turning around some of the world's largest, best known, and most impactful for-profit and non-profit enterprises and networks. His work spans several industries including, consumer banking, e-Commerce, consumer insights, health, and humanitarian relief and development, among ot...

George and Ernesto sit down and talk about podcasting, how to use it to showcase your work and build your client base, recognizing and reaching your audience, and creating the right content. George is the Chief Whaler of Whole Whale, a B-Corp digital marketing and analytics agency for social impact. A father of 2 little ones, George is the former CTO of DoSomething.org, founder of CTOs For Good an...

Ernesto and Mickey share their insights on Association Management Systems and AMS Optimization. They discuss the common problems their clients run into, their assessment process, what goes into choosing the right AMS, making sure it integrates with the other systems in place, and ensuring that it serves the user. For AMS Optimization and other services from Through The Noise, visit getthroughtheno...

Mickey and Ernesto dive into a conversation around data once again, but this time it's about the data itself. They share their insights on data integrity, where they discuss the data we save, for how long we need to save it, keeping it updated, and the tools that can help with its maintenance. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new...

Mickey and Ernesto dive into a conversation around data once again, but this time it's about the data itself. They share their insights on data integrity, where they discuss the data we save, for how long we need to save it, keeping it updated, and the tools that can help with its maintenance. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new...

Mickey and Ernesto dive into a conversation around data once again, but this time it's about the data itself. They share their insights on data integrity, where they discuss the data we save, for how long we need to save it, keeping it updated, and the tools that can help with its maintenance. Every so often, Ernesto Gluecksmann and Mickey Panayiotakis sit down and talk about digital security, new...

Jonathan Stark is a former software developer who is now on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing. He is the author of Hourly Billing Is Nuts, the host of Ditching Hourly, and writes a daily newsletter on pricing for independent professionals.

As President and CEO of the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), Heidi Brock serves as the chief advocate for the pulp, paper, packaging and wood products manufacturing sector – an industry which accounts for approximately four percent of the total U.S. manufacturing GDP, manufactures nearly $300 billion in products annually and employs approximately 950,000 men and women. The American For...

Tom Kiernan began as CEO of the American Wind Energy Association in 2013 after serving for 15 years as the President of the National Parks Conservation Association. Tom is a native of Arlington, VA, has an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in Environmental Computer Modeling, and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. AWEA is the national trade association for the U.S. wind i...

Daniel Brooks is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Linnean Society of London, and a Research Fellow of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska State Museum. He has been working for the past decade as a free-lance consultant on the evolutionary biology of climate change and emerging disease. He is also an author...

Susan Robertson is the President & CEO of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). She oversees all strategic and operational aspects of the ASAE, ASAE Research Foundation, and its for-profit subsidiary, ASAE Business Solutions. ASAE connects great ideas and great people to inspire leadership and achievement within the association community.

Susan Robertson is the President & CEO of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). She oversees all strategic and operational aspects of the ASAE, ASAE Research Foundation, and its for-profit subsidiary, ASAE Business Solutions. ASAE connects great ideas and great people to inspire leadership and achievement within the association community.

Abdulwahab Alkebsi is the Managing Director for Programs at the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Alkebsi oversees more than 120 programs in over 55 countries and supervises a staff across nine countries, including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Tunisia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Ukraine, and at CIPE's head office in Washington, DC. Louisa Tomar is a Program Officer on...