The Council 15

Our guest Duane Mancini has spent his career in medical device innovation at companies like NAMSA and Labcorp before founding Project Medtech a company that focused on investment &  consulting services in the medical technology space, shortening product development cycles and bringing life saving tech to market faster. 

Listen to Duanne’s Podcast here and check out his book recommendations Thinking, Fast and Slow <...

Our guest Rahul Rao has held technology leadership roles at companies like Zillow and QuickFrame before joining Understood.org, a leading non profit empowering 70 million people in the US  with learning and thinking differences, as co-president and CTO. Learn more about their work here.

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Our guest Josh Greenberg has spent his career launching start ups and building global programs at brands like Red Bull and Spotify. He now runs Green Mountain Lodge, helping leaders, teams, and artists around the world navigate complexity, shape long-term plans, and uncover new opportunities to create lasting outcomes.

Hear his latest musical finds in his Trail Guides Playlist  and get in touch at Green Mountain Lodge

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Our guest Nicole Loher is an award-winning communications expert recognized by Forbes, Adweek, and the Smithsonian Institution for transformative work at the intersection of AI, sustainability, and social impact. She’s the founder of 

Climate Communications Collective where she works with orgs like Climate Rights International to fight climate change. 

Her first book Love, Loss, and Everything In Between, was just publi...

Our guest Jessie Van Arman has spent her career driving high impact digital and experiential campaigns for brands like Meta, Yahoo and Spotify before founding her own consultancy Matron Saint Studio. 

Her book recommendation is Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life

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Our guest ⁠Jascha Kaykas-Wolff⁠ has spent his career scaling global products, as well as leveraging AI and customer data at some of the most prominent brands in the technology industry like Microsoft, Mozilla, and more. ⁠Jascha is currently the CEO of Visiting Media⁠ whose mission is to deliver end to end products and services that drive growth for the hospitality industry.

⁠Check out Nate’s Newsletter on Substack, Jascha’s go to re...

Jess Cook joins Council 15 to discuss the evolution of product leadership, the power of storytelling in tech, and how AI is reshaping digital experiences. A must-listen for anyone navigating product, design, and the future of technology.

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Our guest Ben Henson has spent his career at the intersection of sales and marketing. Ben has driven revenue for several high-growth companies, including TechTarget, where he contributed to its successful IPO, and Integrate, which was acquired by private equity. He also played key roles in two companies that achieved strategic acquisitions. Now, as Co-Founder and CRO of Peel, a TechStars-backed startup, Ben is leveraging his expert...

Thad Starner is a professor of computing at Georgia Tech and a pioneer of wearable computing, human computer interaction and artificial intelligence. He produced over 600 academic presentations and papers on these topics as well as over 100 US utility patents. A founder of the ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers in 1997, Thad helped establish the academic field of wearable computing and coined the term augmented reali...

Christina Lee Storm is an award-winning producer and senior media & entertainment executive recognized for her groundbreaking work at the intersection of storytelling and technology including roles at DreamWorks, Universal and Netflix.

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Babak Parviz has spent his career at the intersection of technology and social impact. He was a director at Google X where he founded and led the Google Glass team from inception to launch. Then co-founding the contact-- lens team that became a partnership with Novartis. He founded Amazon’s Grand Challenge with their expansion into healthcare & diagnostics before joining Madrona ventures to invest and advise the most promising ...

Our guest Mike Constantiner is an entrepreneur and angel investor who spent over a decade in consumer tech and products. His first company was acquired by Vimeo and then went on to found D2C brand PRNCPLS and is now co-founder of Freestyle a rapidly growing brand with a sustainable approach to diapers and wipes for the modern family. Check out Freestyle and follow on Instagram.

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Our guest Kaitlin Pike has led brand and developer marketing for Github, StackOverflow, Amplitude, and Hiro leading to her new role as VP of Corporate Marketing at Sigma Computing. Her book recommendation is Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box and follow her on Linkedin.

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Our guest Alan Miller is the founder of Collide an Award-Winning boutique agency where he’s led innovative campaigns for the biggest brands in the world.  He also owns the Portland Oregon's ONLY Baseball team, the Portland Pickles, Lake County Captains, The Cleburne Railroaders along with sports lifestyle brand Official League. Find him at SXSW on Rainey Street.

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Our guest Buddy Waddington has spent his career in innovation & marketing leading to his current role focused on insights and AI solutions at Sprinklr whose mission is to enable every organization on the planet to make their customers happier. 

His podcast recommendation is Acquired and book is Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

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Our guests Nandini Ranganathan & Siona Kim Moses work at the intersection of technology and art with the CETI Institute which champions lifelong learning and collaborative, interdisciplinary innovation in creative and emergent technologies. 

Learn more at https://ceti.institute/

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Our guest Michael Liu is the Head of Innovation at Carat where he helps the biggest brands in the world take advantage of the latest technology to connect with their audiences. Check out some of the AI products he mentions in this episode here: Perplexity , Claude by Anthropic, Memorable, Native, His book recommendations are “The War of Art” & “Vivian Maier: A Photographer Found” and you can follow him on LinkedIn here.

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Our guest is Didi Bethurum, who has spent her career in tech and consumer marketing. Didi shares a bit about her experience, from Microsoft to Gogoro in Taipei to her current role as Chief Communications Officer for arts and entertainment company Meow Wolf, who just opened their fourth location in Dallas, Texas. Her book recommendation is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel and her favorite podcast right now is Tetragramm...

Our guest today is Brad Manuel who has spent his career in advertising and sports marketing before co-founding Livewire, a start up that connects brands with the 3 Billion+ global gaming audience. His podcast recommendation is Everybody Hates Marketers

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