Disruptive Ceo Nation

The fourth industrial revolution is the RPA, which stands for Robotic Process Automation. Leading the revolution is Harel Tayeb, a serial entrepreneur with more than 15 years’ experience in the technology ecosystem, and CEO of Kryon, an enterprise automation software provider. Harel is leading Kryon’s aggressive growth strategy while building a world-class team of curious, innovative problem solvers. The company, based in Israel, has 10 offices worldwide and serves clients including HSBC, Allianz, AIG, Great Eastern in Asia-Pac, Wyndam Hotel and several Telcos. Prior to joining Kryon, Tayeb was an investor and advisor at Plus Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing tech startups. He has held several leadership positions at AVG (acquired by Avast for $1.3B) and Como (CondulT Mobile), a mobile app platform. The idea of RPA is to have virtual workers. These “workers” do the boring jobs so that employees can focus on more innovation, communication and creating things that are more impactful for the employer

Aline Muylaert is the co-founder of CitizenLab, a civic engagement platform. The software meets the need of local governments that want to connect with citizens digitally, in a safe and efficient way. CitizenLab’s technology allows increased transparency within governmental processes, and to engage citizens in policymaking. 150 local governments in over 50 countries currently use the software. Aline is on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for social entrepreneurship. Her journey has so many lessons for entrepreneurs. We discussed: ·        Standing firm in your social mission while measuring both revenue and impact goals. ·        The need to digitize democracy to increase citizen engagement. ·        Harnessing AI for data aggregation to make data-driven decisions. ·        Having diverse teams and being aware of biases that can influence coding and products. ·        Start up funding, Impact VCs, and rapid expansion. ·        Building initial brand trust by piloting and sharing relatable, success stories. Aline’s

For this episode we head to Singapore to speak with Yeoh Siew Hoon, a remarkable businesswoman, friend of young entrepreneurs, and the founder of Web in Travel (WiT). WiT launched in 2005 and was acquired by Northstar Travel Media in 2104. Siew Hoon continues to lead the platform, having extended editions across the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe. Siew Hoon started the company based on her interest on how technology was changing the way people book and plan their travel but over the years expanded the focus and the product lines while staying true to the company’s brand message - Our purpose is to take your mind to new places, so that together we can accelerate travel innovation. In our conversation, Siew Hoon shares her story of how she built her company and provides insights on the Asian entrepreneur community. We discuss: ·        Building a community around travel technology and trends. ·        Telling your company’s story and repurposing content across media platforms. ·        Supporting Asian e

Priszcilla Varnagy is the founder and CEO of Be-novative, a Design Thinking Process Management Platform. Priszcilla is recognized by Forbes 30 under 30, and is a winner of several competitions including Singularity University’s first Global Impact Competition in the CEE region in 2012, The Next Web’s Innovation Challenge, TechMatch Europe Silicon Valley, Morgan Stanley CTO Summits. Priszcilla graduated as a psychologist, so she has a unique take on human nature and the intersection with technology. Be-novative is being used in over 500 Open Innovations projects. This software represents the future of work. In our conversation, Priszcilla explains how the software uses design thinking and how companies can engage teams to innovate and problem solve. We also spoke about: ·        Design thinking and how companies can engage teams to innovate and problem solve ·        The connection between creative people and self-confidence and happiness ·        Product development for a tech platform ·        Scaling focuse

Patricia Osorio is the Founder & CMO at Birdie, a venture backed startup that develops proprietary AI (artificial intelligence) models to help brands understand what consumers think and want from brands and their products. Patricia is also the co-founder of GVAngels, an Angel investment Group with 200 plus members that have invested more than $2-million in 20 startups in Brazil. Patricia’s tech startup journey started in Brazil, continued in South America, and expanded to the U.S. One of her clients is Samsung electronics. Our conversation covers Patricia’s tech journey and understanding the data aggregation process. We discussed: Scaling a tech company and aggregating third-party data using AI to understand how consumers actually use products How brands can use customer insights to improve their products Funding and mentoring from VC resources and groups like 500 Startups The cultural differences when working in South America or the United States.  Patricia is a great example of being a tech disruptor

Mathew Sweezey, Director of Market Strategy-Salesforce, is one of the leading thought leaders on the future of marketing. His visionary insights into consumer behavior, technologies and business strategies have changed the way startups, Fortune 500 and nonprofit organizations have customer conversations. He frequently writes for the Economist, Forbes, HBR, The Observer, and AdAge magazines. In our exciting conversation we covered the new world of marketing, including: ·        Consumers own the media environment; not businesses. ·        Consumers are the largest creators of “noise.” ·        Why messaging is changing and using terms such as available, personal and authentic. ·        Marketing co-creation. ·        Creating communities. Mathew’s book, The Context Marketing Revolution: How to Motivate Buyers in the Age of Infinite Media from Harvard Business Review Press is exceptional. I hope you’ll use his insights to help in your marketing. Connect with Mathew Sweezey: Book on Amazon: The Context Marketing

Technology is pushing many industries to the edge, including the toy market. Yuting Su is the Founder and CEO of Thinker-Tinker, an Educational-Tech gaming company. Yuting is the genius behind Octobe, a patented character-based smart toy learning platform. Yuting is using all her skills as entrepreneur, inventor, and storyteller with a background in digital and physical game design, experience design, and bioinformatics to bring this smart, cuddly creature to market.   In 2017, Yuting was listed in the Forbes 30 Under 30–Games Category. Her company is in the heart of Hollywood, which brings her closer to partners in the entertainment industry. Thinker-Tinker’s unique hardware-software tech solutions bring kids’ favorite characters to life with an expandable content library. The company was part of the Comcast Techstars accelerator and is now working with Universal Brand Development to create new, interactive experiences. In our conversation we discuss: ·        Smart toys and game design solutions. ·        P

In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation we speak with mergers and acquisition expert Michelle Seiler Tucker about her new book Exit Rich. Michelle is passionate about supporting business owners building a business that is scalable and salable. She covers the principles of the Six P's Method that she believes, if followed, a founder can guide a business to a positive valuation and future sale. Michelle Seiler Tucker is the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Inc. She holds a M&AMI (Mergers & Acquisitions Master Intermediary) title and as a 20-year veteran in the M&A industry, she has a wealth of experience regarding buying, selling, fixing, and growing businesses. Her and her firm have sold over a thousand businesses in almost every vertical and have a remarkable track record of success. In addition to being featured in INC, Forbes, and USA Magazine, Michelle is a Keynote Speaker and makes regular radio and TV appearances on Fox Business News and CNBC. Connect with Michelle Seiler Tucker: Personal Facebook, Bus

For this episode, we headed to Ghana to speak on social entrepreneurism with the Founder and CEO of 1 Billion Africa, Prince Adu-Appiah. Prince shares his vision of ‘Turning problems into projects’ and how he approached developing a movement whose projects and activities have impacted over 12,500 Africans, with the majority being youth, women and children. We discuss his love of leadership, his tech background, his start up story, branding, marketing and how he activated a base of supporters, donors, and leaders. We also discuss leadership principles and what it means to inspire Africa’s Youth to find problems in their communities and to turn them into projects. Prince Adu-Appiah is a social entrepreneur, a thought leader, a development worker, and a tech consultant whose passion is to help eradicate poverty in Africa and to raise young leaders. He is the Founder and CEO of 1Billion Africa (www.1billionafrica.org). His work has attracted honors and recognitions both locally and globally including; receiving

We head to Vienna, Austria to meet Francisco Webber, founder of multiple companies, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) expert and inventor of Cortical.io’s proprietary Retina technology – a technology applies the principles of cerebral processing to machine learning and natural language understanding (NLU) to solve real-world use cases related to big text data.   In this episode, we discuss big data and the problems that need to be solved to sort through and interpret that data. Francisco provides insight into semantic folding processing and how Cortical.io (www.cortical.io) is pushing forward smarter machine automation. At Cortical.io solutions are based on the actual meaning of text, rather than on statistical occurrences. We also discuss how the business was built and how they have harnessed a multi-national team to collaborate and innovate. Francisco’s interest in information technology developed during his medical studies, when he was involved in medical data processing. Over the course of two decades

In this episode we head to Sri Lanka to speak with Vidusha Nathavitharana. Vidusha is a vibrant and motivating leadership and human resource expert who possesses a wide corporate background that has served as a positive foundation to launching his businesses. He is also the author of over 50 books and a TedX speaker.   We have an open and honest conversation on his first startup High5 Consultancy and the lessons learned that he improved upon in his second venture Luminary Learning Solutions, which has scaled up and delivered executive training, team building and other services in 25 countries and counting. Vidusha has pioneered the concept of ROI based leadership training and boasts the ability to offer quantifiable and verifiable ROI after each of his signature leadership programs - possibly a first across the globe. We also discuss the influence of his father on his business life and why he is so passionate about training the next generation of business leaders and offers all his books for free - honouring

Retail is a sector that has experienced unprecedented shifts related to customer behaviors, changes in loyalty, digital strategies, AI advances, the rise of influencers and more. For brands it is no longer only important to get a product on the shelf and for stores the stakes are now high on how to engage and entice the in-person purchase experience. Retailers need tailored solutions and guidance on how to innovate for the world of tomorrow. Enter The Navio Group founded by Carlos Castelan. In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation we speak with Carols about his founders story and his vision to establish a lead boutique firm focused on helping retailers transform their business, drive cost savings, reinvent core business, and develop innovation. Through The Navio Group, Carlos supports clients range from Fortune 500 retailers to high growth direct-to-consumer businesses. Prior to Navio, Carlos was a Partner & Chief Strategy Officer at Conlego, a premier negotiations and partnership firm. There he advised on g

From college student to world domination and all the tough work that takes place in-between, this is the story of Oleksandr Kosovan. For this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we went to the Ukraine to speak with this tech-entrepreneur who has achieved what only others have dreamed of. As the creator of CleanMyMac, Oleksandr has witnessed his app pass the count of 4 million users, in fact, every 5th Mac on Earth has a MacPaw app installed on it and there is at least one MacPaw user in Antarctica. Oleksandr shares his founder’s journey which began as a hobby project spending one year developing his first app over nights and weekends and once ready, he chose to allow open access to it. His journey is an amazing one that covers product development, distribution, customer feedback, and accelerated growth, all while bootstrapping his way to leading a 260-employee organization. We also discussed the careful balance of the life of an entrepreneur, starting a family, and giving back. MacPaw is headquartered in Kyiv,

Whether you are in startup, scale up or running steady and strong, every business builder needs to be a great leader. In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we speak with Tim Spiker, author, trainer, team builder and leadership development expert. As the founder of The Aperio, Tim can uniquely relate to entrepreneurs and the decisions and pressures on their shoulders as they navigate business. He also shares his own story of planning his leap from receiving a paycheck to writing the check for others. Tim’s book, The Only Leaders Worth* Following, reveals that 77% of leadership effectiveness comes from who a leader is and not what they do. Using this principle, Tim helps people become, be, and stay leaders who are actually worth following. Tim has worked with leadership teams in North America, Australia, and Asia. Tim’s work includes delivering keynote talks, creating unique and customized learning experiences, and guiding long-term development journeys including teaching on the Who* Not What Principle. He

A big part of any business is the basis for its tech framework. In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation we speak with Karolyn Hart, an award-winning Canadian entrepreneur, technology executive, activist, speaker, author and Founder of InspireHUB. Our conversation transverses topics of digital experience platforms, data security, data ownership, and how to have a simple, organic, business ecosystem that allows start-ups and small business owners focus on their objectives and customer care rather than risks and stumbling blocks of the tech framework. We also talk about Karolyn extraordinary journey as an entrepreneur and founder that included being sought out by the Mandela family to bring her skills to a very special project in South Africa. With a vision to ‘Fred Rodgers’ the business world, Karolyn is a person to know in your network. She has also made "The Ultimate Small Business Survival Guide" available to help navigate crisis management and shore business continuity plans: https://www.inspirehub.com/en-

For this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we head to Texas to speak with Jeff Chastain, founder of Admentus and a professional Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS®) Implementer. We have a candid conversation with Jeff about his own career and the motivation to establish his own business. We then focus on the challenges faced by all business builders and approaches to ease stress as a business grows. We all know that it takes very different skills to start a business then to sustain one, and that if you don’t have the right advice, cracks can show up rather quickly. Complementing fifteen years in the technology space, Jeff founded Admentus to help entrepreneurs and business leaders embrace systems that can predict success. Jeff is a big believer in the EOS Model™ and mentors and trains founders and business creators on the Six Key Components™ that must be managed and strengthened to be a great business: vision, people, data, issues, process and traction. Of course, here at Disruptive CEO Nation, we also wo

What can you learn from a recognized Silicon Valley thought leader and strategist? A whole lot about market domination strategies. In this episode, we talk with Theresa M. Lina. the author of the best-selling book Be the Go-To: How to Own Your Competitive Market, Charge More, and Have Customers Love You For It. Every business builder knows they need to find that perfect edge to their value proposition and using ‘The Apollo Method for Market Dominance’, we discuss with Theresa what elements it takes to achieve success as a premium Go-To brand. Her tips and insight on how you shouldn’t be competing on price are good reminder for all our listeners that you constantly need to evaluate the course of your mission. Theresa M. Lina is the CEO of Līna Group, Inc., which specializes in market dominance strategy. Over her professional life, she has served as chief strategy and marketing officer for several technology startups and has advised hundreds of companies. She began her career at Accenture, where she helped foun

Chris Locke is an innovative business growth and start up expert who has a legacy of working with corporates and individuals to build powerful, sustainable, and socially minded organizations. But aside from being a wealth of knowledge, we love the ease at which he approaches his conversations and clients – it makes him a pleasure to know.   In this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we talk with Chris about the current economic environment, evolving business models, opportunities, rapid shifts in customer bases, and the tenants for a successful business. Chris share case studies (Nokia), data (the average age of successful entrepreneurs is 45) and talks about businesses focused on solving problems and delivering positive impact under the UN Sustainable Development Goals (check out their SDG Compass program).   At Rainmaking, Chris and his team work with corporates by implementing a systemic approach to driving innovation and developing new business models to unlock future growth. Under the ASPIRE program, the

Sometimes we meet entrepreneurs who amaze us and Jonathan Ogurchak, the Co-founder and CEO of http://stackpharmacy.com/, is one of those people. Jonathan stepped away from a lucrative career as a pharmacist to build a platform that could transform the way #pharma business gets done, and he did so as a father of two children with one on the way and he literally started this great business in his garage (and here we must pause for quick salute to his wonderful wife).   In this episode, we hear the #startup story of Stack, a compliance management software designed to simplify the “outside of the dispense” complexities associated with running successful pharmacy organizations; however, the principles and functions of the STACK information ecosystem principles can translate to multiple industries.  Jonathan is also Managing Partner of Rhythm Group, a consulting and technology solutions organization, and is a Certified Consultant with Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC). Jonathan has designed programs a

Pedro Pico is both an inspiring businessman and gem of a woman. For this episode of Disruptive CEO Nation, we head to Lisbon, Portugal and meet Pedro, whose motto is ‘My secret to get things done is getting started’.   Pedro is a creative adventurer who has built a business out of his love affair with food. He produced his own cooking show on YouTube which led to founding Tasty Studio, a company specializing in branded food and beverage media content. He has also hosted hundreds of home-cooked dinners for people from around the world all of which has led to his latest business venture: Drag Taste.   Featured by Airbnb as one of the top experiences in the world, Pedro developed Drag Taste with spouse Nikolay (a.k.a. Irina Ganache). They have an amazing team of the best drag queens from all over the world and, under a chandelier of red high heels, they host events such as "Drag-up Cooking Class", where they transform every guest in drag and host a Portuguese cooking class and event. Not to be side tracked by CO