PreVetted Podcast

Maeve Ferguson is The Authority Architect, the strategist behind diagnostic infrastructure that transforms established thought leaders from respected but replaceable to Category of One. Creator of The Client Engine, she works with 7-10 figure experts, bestselling authors, and industry authorities including Dr. Arthur Brooks, Jen Kem, and Selena Soo, building the systems that turn intellectual property into assets that qualify, conv...

Andrew Scott is Field CISO at Todyl, where he bridges executive decision-makers and cybersecurity programs for mid-market and SMB organizations. With over a decade of experience across IBM, CrowdStrike, and Recorded Future, he has built security operations programs, led threat intelligence teams, and advised Fortune 500 companies and Federal agencies.

In this episode, Andrew breaks down the most common security gap he sees across or...

Syed Omar is the founder of LOLA AI, a voice agentic platform that handles inbound and outbound phone calls for businesses, qualifies leads, and books meetings automatically. He started his entrepreneurial journey at 13 with a streetwear brand, built a media agency in Bangalore handling influencer deals and brand campaigns, and pivoted to AI after recognizing it as the next major shift in how businesses operate.

In this episode, Sye...

Mike Carraggi started writing for a weekly paper in Everett, Massachusetts at fourteen years old, went on to The Boston Globe, and eventually made an unlikely pivot into product management at Patch.com without a business degree, without a technical background, and without what he calls a Marty Cagan product upbringing. Today he leads product at Patch across more than 14,000 communities nationwide.

In this episode Mike makes the case...

Marc Shenkman is President and co-founder of Priority Financial Network, a privately owned mortgage banker based in Calabasas, California. He has spent decades in the industry, from trading mortgage-backed securities at major firms to building a direct lending operation that has funded billions in home loans.

In this episode, Marc breaks down how independent mortgage banks actually work, why they originate over 80% of mortgages in A...

Grant Byron spent two decades building things from scratch, first as a designer turning blank pages into products, then as a product and operations leader helping companies scale. In this episode, Grant shares how he evolved from web design into general management, why being a generalist is a superpower, and what he learned leading product at complex marketplace platforms like Delivery.com.

We also dig into his social impact work, h...

Sayan Bhattacharya is Head of Engineering at LINK and the creator of LinkToAny.com, a platform that helps businesses migrate from legacy systems to the cloud and connect their critical tools. With a decade of experience building full-stack systems across retail, supply chain, and marketplace platforms, Sayan specializes in solving the complex challenges of data migration and system integration.

In this episode, we explore how busine...

Hiten Sonpal is the CEO of RISE Robotics, an MIT-founded company targeting the $60 billion hydraulic actuator market with the Beltdraulic, a fluid-free actuator that is three times faster and up to 90 percent more energy efficient than traditional hydraulics.

Hiten started his career self-funding college by writing software, then spent nearly 16 years at iRobot, growing from lead engineer to director leading teams of 140 people acro...

Michael Hickman, CEO of Seven Gables Real Estate for nearly 50 years, shares his journey from starting as an agent to leading a company with 500 advisors across Southern California. He discusses the importance of learning from the ground up, the influence of mentors and coaches, and how values drive decision-making in business.

Drawing from his college baseball experience under legendary coach Gary Adams, Mike emphasizes servant lea...

Leah Gabriel Nurik is CEO and co-founder of Brandi AI, a Generative Engine Optimization platform helping companies understand and improve how they show up in AI-driven search and answers. With over 20 years at the intersection of product, marketing, and go-to-market, she has worked with more than 400 growth-stage software companies. She also founded Gabriel Marketing Group, an award-winning B2B tech PR and marketing agency known fo...

Logan Yonavjak is a 2x founder, investor, and impact finance expert with two decades of experience channeling capital into what matters. She co-founded a sell-side advisory firm, helped move hundreds of millions into impact investing, and has worked with startups, endowments, and family offices along the way. Today she leads the Founder Readiness Institute, using behavioral science and AI to measure leadership capacity before organ...

Hanna Bauer is the founder of HEARTnomics Enterprises and a leadership strategist with nearly three decades of experience as a CEO, board chair, and executive director. She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Baldrige Excellence Examiner, and faculty with Maxwell Leadership.

In this episode, Hanna breaks down why most organizations fail not because people stop caring, but because their systems fall out of alignment. She walks through he...

Healey Cypher is CEO and co-founder of BoomPop, a company using AI to help teams plan and host meaningful in-person events. A 4x founder, former COO at Atomic, and former Head of Retail Innovation at eBay, Healey has built and sold companies across commerce, retail tech, and event experiences.

In this episode, Healey shares why he believes the loneliness epidemic is one of the most urgent problems of our time, and how BoomPop is tac...

Erin McDonald is the CEO of Spilt Milk Nannies, a nanny referral service in the Seattle area built on trust, rigorous vetting, and a genuine love for connecting families with the right care. In 2012, while studying at the University of Washington, she took over a small babysitting referral business and saw its potential to become something much more. Today she leads a community of nannies and a roster of families who count on her t...

Kyle Disher is the founder of RevDojo, the training, hiring, and technology platform serving hundreds of car dealerships directly and touching over 10,000 companies through white-label partnerships. He started selling cars in high school, became Salesperson of the Year, and spent the early dot com era running one of the most successful internet departments in the country.In this episode, Kyle breaks down what separates top-performi...

Muhammad Atif, CTO and President of PureLogics, has spent nearly two decades building over 1,200 products across 30 countries. In this episode, he breaks down what it actually takes to deliver quality software at scale and why most companies get it wrong.From ISO certification and CMMI Level 2 processes to Agile sprint discipline and PMO audits, Muhammad shares how PureLogics keeps quality consistent across 500+ engineers. He and F...

Jim Fruchterman is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur who took a sharp left turn into social impact and never looked back. In this episode, Jim shares how he started seven for profit companies in twelve years, why investors vetoed his idea to build technology for blind people, and how that pushback led him to create nonprofit tech companies that have now defined his life’s work.

Jim explains what it means to run a “tech ...

David Asarnow is an entrepreneur and growth strategist focused on helping businesses build predictable revenue. He explains how he improves results by tightening positioning, clarifying the offer, fixing funnel breakdowns, and strengthening sales follow up so leads do not get wasted. David shares why he prefers to under promise and over deliver, and how many teams confuse activity with progress when the message is unclear and nurtu...

Ohad Shaked, co founder and CEO of ThinkUp, explains how his early IoT startup spent months chasing the right vertical and customer, and how that frustration led him to build a digital accelerator for first time founders. ThinkUp focuses on the pre revenue phase and guides founders step by step through customer research, interviews, assumption testing, market and competitor analysis, value proposition, go to market strategy, pitch ...