Disruptive CEO Nation

Latest Episodes:

EP 084 Harel Tayeb, CEO of Kryon Systems Mar 17, 2021

Show notes

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 and organization.

In our conversation, Harel shared:

· The growth of RPA and its role in Covid-19 vaccinations in Israel.

· Encouraging RPA development with low code or no code interfaces.

· The opportunities of the “citizen developer.”

· The future of RPA and the workplace environment.

· Leadership insight as an accomplished entrepreneur and company builder.

Harel also addressed the fears people may have when a new technology is introduced that might replace traditional workers. With his examples, people will easily see the advantages and new opportunities for RPA.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Harel:

Website:Kryonsystems.com

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EP 083 Aline Muylaert, Co-founder CitizenLab Mar 10, 2021

Show notes

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 journey started like so many other entrepreneurs. She found a problem and set out to solve it. And then she found a way quickly to grow and monetize. I hope you’ll learn from her experiences.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Aline Muylaert:

Website:http://www.citizenLab.co

Email:Aline@citizenlab.co

Connect with Allison Summers:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#socialentrepreneurship #founderstory #Forbes #Forbes30 #startup #BusinessBelgium #Brussels #AI #data #tech #coding #socialimpact #voting

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EP 082 Yeoh Siew Hoon, Founder Web in Travel, WiT Mar 03, 2021

Show notes

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 entrepreneurs with the WiT Startup competition.

· Supporting startups by matching investors, sharing expertise and building relationships.

· Cultural aspects of entrepreneurs in Asia compared to places like the U.S.

Siew Hoon believes everyone should express his or her creativity. She expresses hers by writing books, including Around Asia In One Hour: Tales of Condoms, Chilies & Curries, and her children’s books, Adventures of Habibie The Turtle, and The Story of Baitong and Boon.

You can learn more about travel in her podcast, A Life In Travel.

Enjoy the show!

Connect with Yeoh Siew Hoon:

Website: https://www.alifeintravel.net/

Website: https://www.webintravel.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siew-hoon-yeoh-b11b69/

Facebook @yeohsiewhoon

Instagram @yeohsiewhoon

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#CEO #founder #travel #traveltech #travelasia #Singapore #businessasia #travelpodcast

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EP 081 Priszcilla Varnagy, CEO Be-novative Feb 24, 2021

Show notes

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 focused on quality of clients not just quantity

· Leveraging competitions for brand awareness and fundraising

· The intersection of AI development and human intelligence

· Singularity University and why you should check it out

Be sure to check out Priszcilla’s free Skillshare class listed below. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Priszcilla Varnagy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/priszcilla/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHB9BMnXtziEO9g-TMNLbJw

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vpriszcilla/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/priszcillav

Skillshare: skl.sh/34VlZko

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

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

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EP 080 Patricia Osorio, Founder & CMO Birdie Feb 17, 2021

Show notes

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. Enjoy the show!

Connect with Patricia Osorio

Website: https://birdie.ai

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciaomg

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#dataanalytics #AI #consumerelectronics #Tech #marketing #500startups #Entrepreneur #startup #startupstory #CEO #founder

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EP 079 Mathew Sweezey: Director of Market Strategy, Salesforce & Author of The Context Marketing Revolution Feb 10, 2021

Show notes

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 Revolution: How to Motivate Buyers in the Age of Infinite Media

To find out more about the book, visit this link: https://www.amazon.com/Context-Marketing-Revolution-Motivate-Infinite/dp/163369402X/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia-wc-rsf-lq2a1_0?crid=2BW97BDIGZL0&cv_ct_cx=the+context+marketing+revolution&dchild=1&keywords=the+context+marketing+revolution&pd_rd_i=163369402X&pd_rd_r=414832de-e3af-47dc-ac9b-54e858b9babe&pd_rd_w=bYRtK&pd_rd_wg=efy0d&pf_rd_p=52f9c563-bb87-44f4-9d9d-e1c03402d90f&pf_rd_r=JK6Z99Y8FS553GKP5QSY&psc=1&qid=1610748976&sprefix=The+context+%2Caps%2C174&sr=1-1-d3e58e83-6458-471c-a87e-175495b96a10

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathewsweezey/

Connect with Allison:

allisonksummers.com

#marketing #CX #HBR #media #AI #brand #business #saleforce #ex #consumer #marketingtransformation #future #futurism #contentcreators

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EP 078 Yuting Su, Founder and CEO, Thinker-Tinker Feb 03, 2021

Show notes

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.

· Product development and patents.

· Yuting’s perseverance as an entrepreneur.

· Lessons learned and working with contractors.

Yuting’s tip for entrepreneurs? Be open-minded and talk to people, consume knowledge in multiple places.

Website: Tinker-Tinker.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suyuting/

Social handles: @thinkertinkerinc, @playoctobo, @musicstarsgame

#CEO #startupstory #entrepreneurlife #business #toys #kids #gamedesign #octobo #play #learningthroughplay #game

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EP 77 Michelle Seiler Tucker Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Inc. Jan 27, 2021

Show notes

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, Business Facebook Page, Instagram, Twitter, & LinkedIn

Website: www.seilertucker.com

Book: www.exitrichbook.com

Connect with Allison:

Website: allisonksummers.com

#Exitrich #business #businessbuilder #founder #owner #valuation #DisruptiveCEONation

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EP 76 Prince Adu-Appiah – Founder and CEO, 1 Billion Africa (Ghana) Jan 20, 2021

Show notes

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 the JCI 2015 Top 10 Outstanding Young Persons in Ghana Award, recognized as part of JCI World's 2015 Top 20 Outstanding Young Persons in the World, recognized in 2015 Top 30 Under 30 Future of Ghana young talents in Ghana, recipient of Unsung Hero People of Distinction Humanitarian Award, USA, and listed in Leadership Expert Gordon Tredgold's 2014 TOP 10 F.A.S.T Leaders list. Prince is a 2-time TEDx Speaker, a 2017 Kumvana Fellow, a 2016 Brightest Young Minds alumnus, an Ashoka Changemakers Scholar, and an Associate Fellow at the Royal Commonwealth Society. He holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Ghana Business School in Organizational Leadership & Corporate Governance.

Connect with Prince on LinkedIn at: www.linkedin.com/in/princeaduappiah or via social media:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/princeaappiah

Twitter: www.twitter.com/princeaappiah

Instagram: www.instagram.com/princeaappiah

#socialentrepreneur #CEO # founder #startupstory #nonprofit #ngo #Ghana #SDGs

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EP 75 Francisco Webber - Co-founder and CEO of Cortical.io Jan 13, 2021

Show notes

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, he explored search engine technologies and documentation systems in various contexts but became increasingly frustrated with the limitations of state-of-the-art statistical methods. In 2005 he founded Matrixware Information Services, which developed the first standardized global patent database. In 2007 he set up the Information Retrieval Facility with leading academic expert in information retrieval Professor Keith van Rijsbergen. Francisco recognized that the brain was the only existing reference system when it came to processing natural language. While closely following developments in neuroscience, he formulated his theory of Semantic Folding, which models how the brain represents language data.

Cortical.io provides natural language understanding (NLU) solutions that enable large enterprises to automate the extraction, monitoring, and analysis of key information from any type of text data reducing the time and human effort it takes to complete business-critical data search and review processes. Coritcal.io has been implemented at multiple Fortune 100 businesses and featured in the Economist, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg and Gartner.

Cortical.io has offices in Europe (HQ in Vienna) and in the US (New York and San Francisco).

Connect with Francisco: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscoeduardodesousawebber/

#Tech #bigdata #automation #NLU #machinelearning #Fortune100

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected