Disruptive CEO Nation

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Episode 164 Steve Gallion, Co-Founder & CEO of MedTrainer, Los Angeles, California, USA Sep 28, 2022

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Steve Gallion launched his second company, MedTrainer. His mission was to empower healthcare organizations through compliance automation. He is passionate about supporting all healthcare organizations, which have been put under enormous pressure and demands. With a 100% customer-inspired product, internal healthcare thought leaders, and custom curated content, MedTrainer set out with a mission to solve healthcare’s largest problems using a single platform.

Today MedTrainer has grown to become a respected market leader in the healthcare community. MedTrainer’s success is attributed to over 200 dedicated healthcare SaaS professionals who strive to provide the best experience to our customers every day. MedTrainer and its management team continue to invest every day in the success of our people, culture, and customers, with a focus on our core mission: Being the best compliance solution for every healthcare organization.

In our conversation, Steve Gallion explains:

- How Steve got started with the concept of health care education?

- The importance of finding the right talent for Steve's executive leadership team.

- The next phase of growth for his company.

Be sure to check out Steve’s listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Steve Gallion

Website- https://medtrainer.com/about-us

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevegallion

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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Episode 163 Jem Bourouh, CEO & Founder of Adcubator, UAE/Bali/Germany Sep 21, 2022

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At 24 years old, Jem Bourouh has spent the last four years launching and selling 7-8 figure eCommerce brands, with totals of more than $20 million in sales. After his massive success, he decided it was on to his next projects. He launched his marketing agency called Adcubator in 2018, which also acts as a VC and invests in smaller direct-to-consumer brands. Jem also has an education-focused entity called eCom Incubator. With extensive knowledge in marketing fundamentals, consumer behavior, branding and positioning, business strategy, media buying, copywriting, and creating landing pages, he and his team manage the entire Google Ads platform and take eCommerce businesses to million and multi-million-dollar success stories. His drive and motivation to dominate the industry make him an inspirational powerhouse with a talent for teaching others to think outside of the box and solve problems from a unique perspective. He leads with the belief that if you are working hard enough, it is not if you will succeed, but when. This makes him and his company unstoppable.

In our conversation, Jem Bourouh explains:

What is the future of e-commerce like?
How do I show the respect of products benefits to a prospect?
An example of a brand that he has helped recently that he’s been really excited about.

Be sure to check out Jem’s listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Jem Bourouh:

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jem-bourouh/

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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Episode 162 Gillian O'Brien, Founder in Residence at Pilot, California, US Sep 14, 2022

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Gillian O'Brien, Founder in Residence, Pilot, California, USA - Why companies can benefit from a Founder in Residence and why being loud about failure can lift up the startup community. At 27, Gillian has had more adventure in her career than others do in a lifetime.

Pilot serves over 1,000 customers who are founders and business leaders with their accounting, finance and accounting needs. Having a Founder in Residence helps deliver insight, empathy, and meaningful ideation for their customer base. Pilot has a staff of 400 people strong and is valued at over a billion dollars.

In our conversation, Gillian O”Brien explains:

Her experiences at Y Combinator and why founders need a community of supporters.
Her first startup Cherry, an HR Saas business, and her willingness to be public and 'loud' about lessons learned in failure as she had to shut down the company at the beginning of the pandemic.
Understanding resources needed by founders and helping them with investor conversations.

Be sure to check out Gillian’s listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Gillian

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillian-obrien/

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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Episode 161 Rabi Gupta, CEO of EvaBot, San Francisco, CA Sep 07, 2022

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Rabi is changing the way companies show their thoughtfulness in a way that captivates and engages customers and employees. His company, EvaBot, runs on AI-squared: The Artificial Intelligence to get deeply personal and he Actionable Intelligence to make better business decisions. In other words, it's the intelligence behind thoughtfulness. Rabi is a serial entrepreneur. Working alongside his current founding team for 10+ years, they have used AI to build recommendation engines, social platforms and enterprise software. His first startup iDubba/iCouchapp was a “TV show recommendations + social engagement” app that had 2M+ monthly active users at the time it got acquired. Rabi then made a bold move to Silicon Valley to start a new company. While there, Rabi became frustrated that the ability to build relationships lacked technological innovation and intelligence. And so, EvaBot was born.

EvaBot is an emotionally intelligent gifting relationship solution that enables thoughtful companies to accelerate the key relationships that increase both growth and competitive advantage. With a platform built to generate emotional engagement and to collect actionable intelligence, they are the standard in amplifying the customer and employee experience, creating an unforgettable journey for the recipient and truly valuable

insight for the company.

In our conversation, Rabi Gupta explains:

- How Rabi built his company, and the steps it took for him to do this.

- How Rabi created his start up in a new city, on his own in San Francisco, CA.

- The specific roles Rabi and his Co-Founders take on with EvaBot

Be sure to check out Rabi’s listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Rabi Gupta

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/rabigupta

Website- https://www.evabot.com

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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Episode 160 Emily Bibb, Co-Founder of Breef, New York, NY Aug 31, 2022

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Emily is an award-winning marketer and passionate entrepreneur who is empowering the next generation of work. She has reimagined the way projects are outsourced, creating the first agency marketplace for high-value, high-consideration transactions online.

As Co-Founder of Breef, Emily uses innovative technology to empower brands and agencies to work better, together — improving productivity, business outcomes and relationships. Her leadership has grown the company's network to 5,000 digital and creative agencies globally with users in over 20 countries in less than two years, while securing significant venture funding for expansion.

Prior to Breef, Emily brought early-stage startups into culture as a digital marketing leader, working with some of the most sought-after brands, including VSCO, POPSUGAR and S'well. Here she experienced firsthand the challenges in-house marketers face to keep up with the demands of modern marketing.

In our conversation, Emily explains:

- How COVID and the opportunity of remote work helped Emily grow her business!

- Emily’s push of making her company as innovative as it can be.

- The idea that good things take time, and how success stories may not come over night.

Be sure to check out Emil Bibb’s links listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Emily:

Website-https://www.breef.com/emilybibb

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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Episode 159 Ziga Fajfar, Co-Founder of Flowout, Slovenia Aug 24, 2022

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Ziga is the co-founder of Flowout, an Unlimited Webflow design & development subscription service. From an early age, Ziga was always passionate about entrepreneurship. After discovering the power of coding, he joined one of the fastest-growing marketing agencies in Slovenia straight after college where his career kicked off. With acquired knowledge and network, he went ahead and started multiple successful tech ventures.

As a developer, Ziga saw the opportunity in the no-code space where his coding background gives him a big advantage. No-code tools helped him create new products and prototypes faster and with ease. This led him to be more successful in testing the market, finding a product-market fit, and thus solving consumer problems

In our conversation, Ziga explains:

- His partnership with his co-founders and how it took a few failures to finally achieve the right formula for the business they were destined to build.

- The mission of Flowout, and how changing the pricing model to offer tiers of service and a subscription/retainer model was right for them and the customer.

- The vision of becoming a company that builds more products client-solutions products while still benefiting from being a services company business model.

Be sure to check out Ziga’s links listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Ziga:

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/zigafajfar

Instagram- zigafajfar

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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Episode 158 Shriya Sekhsaria, Founder & CEO of Lumhaa: The Memory Jar Company, Tamil Nadu, India Aug 17, 2022

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Shriya Sekhsaria runs Lumhaa: The Memory Jar Company, which helps people create and save memories together in "memory jars" (online folders/albums). Lumhaa was founded based on her award-winning research from Princeton which showed that even 10 minutes with memory jars made people happy -- it's one of the first social media platforms (if not the only social media platform) that shows statistically significant improvements in psychological well-being. Aside from powering users across 190 countries (and ranking in Apple's Top 50 Social Apps in 90 countries), her company has helped a few dozen artists in Indian villages find dignified income through their physical memory jar product orders. Shriya is 25, currently lives in India, and has won awards like 2021 Superwoman of the Year award (in association with the Indian Govt) and 2020 STEM Woman Entrepreneur of the Year (AWIS

In our conversation, Shriya explains:

Why Shriya decided to create her company Lumhaa, and how she built her company up to where it is today!
Why Shriya wanted to create a product that makes people happy and brings them joy.
The idea of design thinking, understanding from people and their needs.

Be sure to check out Shriya listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Shriya Sekhsaria:

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shriya-sekhsaria-22964ba7/?originalSubdomain=in

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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Episode 157 Blima Ehrentreu, Founder & CEO of The Designers Group, New York, NY Aug 10, 2022

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Blima Ehrentreu is the Founder and CEO of The Designers Group, an interior design firm based in New York, Miami, and Toronto. As an MWBE (Minority/Women-Owned Business Enterprise) owner in the commercial real estate industry, she knew she had to build a brand that required acceptance and respect in such a male-dominated industry. Investing in the community and supporting women in the construction industry is something she is very passionate about. Blima opened The Designers Group in Toronto, Canada, back in 2009. After establishing the company in Canada, she took the company internationally by opening an office in New York in 2016. Cementing their presence in a design hub like New York proved to be a game-changer for The Designers Group. Since then, TDG has designed over 200 residential, healthcare, hospitality, and commercial projects. We have an incredibly diverse portfolio and are always looking for innovative ideas to stay on the cutting edge of design.

In our conversation, Blima explains:

Bold ambition to grow her company internationally and the lessons she learned along the way.
What motivated her to create The Designers Group.
Creativity and her experience in design.

Be sure to check out Blima’s links listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Blima

Linked In- https://www.linkedin.com/in/blimaehrentreu

Website- https://www.thedesignersgroup.com

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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Episode 156 Vanessa Karel, Founder & CEO of Greether, San Francisco, California Aug 03, 2022

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Vanessa Karel, is a second-time Founder, Serial Entrepreneur, Storyteller, and Creative Producer. She was recently named as one of the 100 rising Latinx Startup founders to watch through her work founding Greether; a travel startup that helps women travel safer. Vanessa is also currently leading Girls in Tech, San Francisco as their Manager Director. Born in the USA, raised in Mexico City. Growing up constantly traveling, Vanessa always found an interest in exploring different cultures and expanding horizons. In 2020, she finally realized what had been lacking throughout her solo journeys, while traveling alone being stranded in Morocco in the middle of the pandemic. Which led to her founding a safety platform for female travelers around the world named Greether. The platform targets some of the most important SDGs and sustainable UN development goals, which are to reduce safety risks for women and to increase income opportunities for them through sustainable tourism. Having only worked on Greether for a year, the web application has organically grown users in over 80 countries and 300 cities around the world.

In our conversation, Vanessa Karel explains:

Vanessa’s travel experiences in other countries and why she created Greether to keep travelers safe in unknown countries.
Vanessa’s journey into Silicon Valley and the other various tech startups she has managed.
Increasing job opportunities for women.

Be sure to check out Vanessa’s links listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Vanessa

Website- https://www.greether.com/vanessakarel

LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-karel/

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/greet.her/

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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Episode 155 Melissa Bauknight, Founder of The Ripple Connection, Golden, Colorado Jul 27, 2022

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Melissa Bauknight is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, adventurer, mother, wife, and a Business and Life Coach. As a collegiate athlete, she graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Finance and has since earned an applicable Ph.D. in Life. She garnered over 15 years of sales and business development experience in the corporate world working across 6 states and consistently performing in the top 10% of her peers. Having checked many boxes on her life goals list - traveling the world, achieving corporate success, marrying a loving husband, and starting a family, she still felt anxious and incomplete.

She knew there were untapped parts of her soul longing to be unleashed.

Melissa chose to boldly follow that inner knowledge leaving her corporate career and went on to be in the top 1% of a social impact direct sales company, build a coaching business at The Ripple Connection, and coach over 1,000 women in sales, mindset, and life alignmen

In our conversation, Melissa explains:

- The most admirable common traits among successful women.

- The more common barriers and roadblocks women may face in business and how to overcome them.

- Using your own inner wisdom as your GPS.

Be sure to check out Melissa’s links listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Melissa:

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/therippleconnection

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/therippleconnection

Website- https://www.therippleconnection.com/

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#tech #SAAS # business #designthinking #AI #creativesociety #teambuilding #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #futureofwork