Value Drivers
Corporate executives, entrepreneurs and authors discuss corporate finance strategies, growth tactics, leadership journeys and other management topics to drive value creation.
Episodes
Joe Essenfeld, the founder of Fora, and Peter Ho discussed Fora's innovative approach to using AI to make enterprise operations more efficient. The company aims to provide C-suite executives with insights from meetings and conversations, allowing them to make strategic decisions based on qualitative data. Fora's focus is on enhancing productivity and bottom-line results for companies, particularly those at inflection points in the...
Peter Ho sat down with Erin Papworth, the founder of Nav.it, a financial wellness platform aimed at reducing financial stress for individuals and employees. Papworth, a seasoned entrepreneur with experience managing multi-million dollar programs, shared insights into the challenges and triumphs of building a startup. She discussed the transition from working in large or...
Nishant Tomar, the Chairman & CEO at Digsfact, shares his journey from a house fire in 2017 to launching a startup using AI for property claims. His motivation to found Digsfact stemmed from a personal experience when his home was affected by a fire in 2017, leading him to identify critical pa...
Balancing Parenthood: Navigating Challenges in Paid Leave Solutions
Peter Ho welcomed special guest Dirk ...
Eziah Zaidi-Syed, CEO of MEND, discusses the company’s evidence-based approach to optimize healing with personalized nutrition and their platform's focus on enhancing patient care during and after surgical procedures. Eziah delves into the company’s unique integrated platform for precision car...
In a recent interview, Peter Ho sat down with Jeff Perlman, the founder of Bright Power—a premier provider of energy and water management services for real estate owners, investors, and operators. The interview provides insight into Perlman's journey, the company's services, a...
In a recent conversation between Peter Ho and Jeff Lambert, the founder of Tiicker, an intelligent software startup, the topic of conversation revolved around Tiicker, a platform that connects individual retail investors with publicly traded companies to offer perks and rewards for stock ownership. The discussion delved into the concept of verified stock perks and shareholder loyalty, wit...
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[01:14] John gave the audience a high level summary of his background. Originally, John is a mathematician. After post doc in computational neuroscience, he went into market research consulting. Five years ago, he started his ...
Jon Cheney, founder and CEO of Velocity Access, discussed how he is building an enhanced ticketing platform by improving the overall experience of the patrons.
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[01:12] Jon gave the audience a brief overview of his background. He has lived in different countries and started selling products ...
Mike Starr, founder and CEO of Trackd, discussed how he and his team help customers minimize vulnerabilities.
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[01:20] Mike provided a brief overview of his background. Before launching trackd, Mike worked at the homeland security department and another startup. Most of the groups he worked in the...
Kunal Agarwal discussed how he and his team makes cyber security a first class experience for his customers.
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[02:19] Kunal shared with the audience his interest and passion in hacking, including an incident when he was in high school.
[04:43] Kunal discussed the genes...
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[01:18] Scot gave a brief outline of his background. Scot has a technology background and two career journeys: a serial entrepreneur and investor/enthusiast/mentor of entrepreneurship.
[03:29] Scot provided a high level overview of Spif...
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[01:36] Palash discussed his background and the genesis of Goldcast. He came to business school with the specific intent of starting a company. The timing was right (Covid) and the market opportunity is at a point where he wanted to ...
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[01:17] Adam provided the genesis of Thatch. Paying for healthcare is really painful and complex. It is painful for the business. It's painful for the employees. Thatch is founded to alleviate the pains for employees and employers.
[05:17] Adam took a deeper dive on how Thatch can help employers and employees. They set a budget, use a bunch of data and visualization...
Elaheh Ahmadi, founder of Themis AI, discusses how she and her team plans to empower the world to create and deploy trustworthy AI.
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[01:15] Elaheh provided an overview of Themis AI and the genesis of the research.
[03:34] Discussion on recent developments of OpenAI an...
Paul Barnhurst (The FP&A guy) discusses current trends, challenges and opportunities of FP&A professionals.
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| Mark as Played November 21, 2023 • 39 mins Thomas Kunjappu, founder and CEO of Cleary, discusses how Cleary can help companies improve internal communication and build organization culture.
Show Notes [01:30] Thomas provided the backstory of the founding of Cleary. His background has mostly been in product management throughout the career. T... Mark as Played November 14, 2023 • 50 mins
Nicholas Longano, founder and CEO of Scuti, discussed the market potential of G-commerce and Scuti's business model. Nick also shared with the audience his fundraising experience and his approach to align and inspire the team to reach the company's goal. Nick is an entrepreneur and thought leader with decades of experience in launching successful companies and brands in diverse industries such as video games, cosmetic and bever... Mark as Played November 2, 2023 • 44 mins Alex Furman, founder and CEO of Performica, discussed his journey from software engineering to HR, and how he developed the internal HR organization graph at Invitae, which seeded the idea of Performica. In a wide ranging discussion, Alex also shared with the audience his fundraising experience and management philosophy.
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