Cracking the Code with Sudhir Ispahani

Ravi Patel is an actor and entrepreneur based in LA. 

Having been cast in pilots nearly every year, Ravi has appeared on numerous popular shows over the course of his career. With his sister Geeta he produced and stared in “Meet the Patel’s. 

Ravi’s latest venture “Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness” premieres on HBO Max on Thursday 27 August.

Separately from acting, Ravi is the co-founder of Th...

Dr. Raymond Choi thought he wanted to become a computer programmer as a teen, but after shadowing a doctor on his rounds, he decided to go to medical school. But one path was not enough. He co-founded Valley Capital while completing his medical residency. Dr. Choi shares how his experience as an emergency room doctor makes him a better fund manager. If you've not already heard episode 4, we suggest you go back into our arc...

Raman Abrol, General Manager at Amdocs Media, shares with host Sudhir Ispahani how he learned the importance of saying "yes" when opportunities were presented, even if it meant working in a war zone. His early lessons came from watching his father build his business and his mother managing a large family. Raman and his team work with major studios, broadcasters, networks and service providers to build and deliver innovat...

John Komeiji, the president and general manager of Hawaiian Telcom, shares how being a C student taught him important lessons for success. Komeiji's tells Cracking the Code host Suhdir Ispahani how getting hit on the head with a hammer by another kindergarten student was a wake up call that helped shaped his personality. He learned how to get out of trouble and how to bounce back from failure, important skills for cracking...

Chantal Rickards started life in a middle class family in rural England and running class plays in school. After college, she took a job selling magazine ads. This led to a job producing television shows with legendary British broadcast David Frost. This eventually brought Rickards to Los Angeles, where she is the chief executive of BAFTA -- the British Academy of Film and TV Arts in Los Angeles. She shares a remarkable st...

Google and Alphabet executive adviser Marwan Fawaz grew up amid Lebanon's civil war where his father was a rare example -- an honest cop. Fawaz first learned management skills from his mother, who had to make sure her 10 children were fed and safe. Fawaz started his career as an engineer with Times Mirror Cable, Continental Cablevision and MediaOne. Then as CTO for Charter Communications, and Adelphia Communicat...

Ekta Dang went where she was told girls don't go. She left her native India for opportunities in other countries, which was something normal for men, but not young ladies.  CEO & Founder of U First Capital shares with host Sudhir Ispahani her analogy of flying her career kite and how she soon learned that other kites were trying to make her crash. She now uses her experience and success to help younger w...

Gerald Glennon is the general manager of The Kahala Hotel & Resort and holds a bachelor’s degree in hotel administration from the University of Denver and a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a marketing emphasis from the University of Northern Colorado. He is a board member of the Hawaii Tourism and Lodging Association, SKAL Hawaii and the Hawaii Culinary Education Foundation. Glennon also previously se...

President, Technology, Product, Xperience, Comcast Cable Tony Werner credits growing up poor on a farm with teaching him invention skills. While Werner has been a leader in innovative thinking for decades, he is still on the frontlines of technology and can see into the future because he's helping to create it. In this discussion with Sudhir Ispahani, Werner shares a must-do list for business leaders and&nbs...

Broadband and Internet infrastructure pioneer Lorenz Glatz shares the inspiration of how the first time he connected to a California computer from Austria he realized that was his future. Glatz worked with Cracking the Code his Sudhir Ispahani to create Liberty Global in Europe. He later became CTO of Kabel Deutschland. Now an advisor & investor, Glatz looks for innovation relating to the economy going digital.

Nikesh Kotecha, Vice President, Informatics at Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, studied biomedical engineering at Boston University and then earned a PhD in biomedical informatics from Stanford University. Kotecha leads interdisciplinary teams to build analytic applications to address problems in healthcare. As an adjunct faculty at Stanford's Systems and Computational Immunology Program, Kotecha is involved in t...

Mike LaJoie, founding partner of LMT & Associates, was a pioneer and innovator who played an important role in creating the technology and infrastructure that is now at the core of so much in our daily lives. In this episode, Lajoie shares his story with Sudhir Ispsihani about how his start in the manufacturing industry building machine for making baseball bats led him to digital technology. This path led him...

J.T. McCormick, president and CEO of the innovative publishing company Scribe, shares the story of his remarkable rise from poverty as a child to an entreprenuer and business leader. McCormick is open about his struggles so that he can teach people lessons learned from his own mistakes. His advice is that you can't change the past, so look forward to what you can control -- the next hour, next week. You can have an impact ...

Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt is known as the "father of mobile communications" because of his decades of research and invention of wireless technology, starting with Ericcson in 1978. Dr. Uddenfeldt was inducted into the American Wireless Hall of Fame and has received many prestigious awards for his contributions to the wireless industry. He now serves as senior advisor and board members to multi-billion dollar companies and to...

Ann Zeichner transitioned from writing for a tech magazine in the 1980s to blazing the trail for woman in tech sales. Her focus early in her life, her mentors, and goal setting led Zeichner to a career running her own company and then as a venture capitalist. Zeichner shares with Sudhir Ispahani her "kindness" style of leadership that features direct and authentic communications. Listening to people is a key leadership too...