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Season 3 - Episode 21- Thom Dennis - New Approaches for Business Leaders in a Time of Cultural Change

Thom Dennis is well known for his expertise in creating transformational change and is a sought-after advisor on a spectrum of leadership, diversity, inclusion and justice issues. Over the last 30 years he has been a coach and confidant to executives of many organisations, facilitated pivotal meetings setting strategy, purpose and vision, and devised and led culture change programs bringing lasting value. He has developed the skills of senior management in leadership, conflict resolution, co...

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Pete Sena - Great Leaders Want The Best Ideas be Heard

Pete Sena is a creative entrepreneur and forward-obsessed business builder. He partners with founders and business leaders to 10x their growth through marketing innovation, branding, and digital-experience design and create what’s next. Specialties: Branding, Marketing Innovation, Strategy, Web3, Digital Transformation, Creative Leadership. As founder of Digital Surgeons, a forward-obsessed brand experience consultancy, Pete designs results-driving strategies that unlock new possibilities ...

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Zach Rattner - Author of "Grow Up Fast" Lessons From an A.I. Start-up

Mark talks to Zach Rattner,  the author of is his first book. Zach shows us the lessons he learned in his journey from an employee to a founder mindset. The lessons he learned are universal amongst entrepreneurs, but Zach gives us a unique spin, as his start-up is in one of the fastest growing areas in the business world - AI. https://growupfastbook.com

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Philip Hall - UltraClean: Turning Rubbish Into Gold Whilst Saving the World.

In this episode of the "Boss It" podcast, join host Mark Edwards as he engages in a compelling conversation with Philip Hall, a distinguished UK inventor deeply committed to advancing technology that could play a pivotal role in addressing the global climate change challenge. Rarely in one's lifetime does the opportunity arise to encounter a game-changer with even half the transformative potential that UltraClean brings to the table. However, the sheer enormity of UltraClean's impact can of...

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Minter Dial - Putting Heart Into Business & AI

Minter Dial is an international professional speaker, elevator and a multiple award-winning author. An agent of change who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times, he’s author of the WWII story, The Last Ring Home as well as 3 business books: Futureproof, Heartificial Empathy (2nd edition) and You Lead. 

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Alan Schulman - The importance of creativity in digital software communication

In the 16th episode of the third season of the BOSS-it podcast, Mark Edwards delves into a discussion with Alan Schulman about the importance of creativity in digital software communication Alan Schulman's background: Alan is widely recognised as an expert in digital creativity and content within the industry. He has held executive roles in both big four consulting firms and creative departments of holding companies. During his tenure as the Managing Director of Deloitte Digital, he became ...

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Professor Alexiei Dingli - Leveraging AI for the Software Industry

In episode 15 of season 3 of the BOSS-it podcast, Professor Alexiei Dingle discusses with Mark Edwards the impact of AI on the software industry. They explore the key benefits that AI will provide, as well as the considerations that the industry needs to make in order to benefit from this emerging technology.  Professor Alexiei Dingli Background: Alexiei is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with over two decades of experience in conducting research and working in the field of AI, ...

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Dr.Ulrich Kampffmeyer - From pre history to AI.

Dr. Ulrich Kampffmeyer was an early pioneer in enterprise content management who pivoted to machine learning and AI. Dr. Kampffmeyer firmly believes that AI will redefine work. In this 54-minute podcast, Mark and Ulrich discuss many topics related to AI and the software industry.

Season 3 - Episode 12: Bob Hoffman: “The Most Provocative Man in Advertising”

Join Mark Edwards as he has an entertaining and informative chat with Bob Hoffman a very outspoken speaker on the subject of advertising. He has been CEO of three advertising agencies and since leaving that role has been unfetttered or hindered about his learnings from several decades. An Amazon #1 best-selling author Bob is happy to take on advertising delusions and layout some startling facts.  The Ad-Contrarian http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/

Season 3 - Episode 13: Business insights from Daniel Priestley; entrepreneur, best-selling author, and international speaker

Hear what Danel learned about scaling businesses from analysing the cut-throat US election cycle, his AI prediction for the next 20 years, and finally what his favourite business book ever is (after reading hundreds of them). Contact Daniel Priestley here: www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestley Buy Daniel’s latest book for £0.99 here:  Scorecard Marketing: The four-step playbook for getting better leads and bigger profits: Amazon.co.uk: Priestley, Daniel, Carlson, Glen: 9781781337196: Books 

Season 3 - Episode 11: Ethical Hacker on the security flaws of software companies - with Ted Harrington

Ethical Hacker on the security flaws of software companies - with Ted Harrington Hear about the rapidly evolving techniques criminal hackers want to use to bring down your software company, and also, how to protect yourself against them. Listen to this BOSS-it episode now hosted by top M&A deal maker, Mark Edwards.   Contact Ted here: www.tedharrington.com

Season 3 - Episode 10: How to do business process automation the right way with Nick Gradwell Part 2

How to do business process automation the right way - with Nick Gradwell Part 2 Hear from one of the industry’s top experts about how he reduces his clients’ runnings costs and maximises their efficiency which drives revenue and cost savings. Plus, discover the number one pitfall software companies make when trying to automate their processes.

Season 3 - Episode 9: How to do business process automation the right way with Nick Gradwell Part 1

How to do business process automation the right way - with Nick Gradwell Part 1 Hear from one of the industry’s top experts about how he reduces his clients’ runnings costs and maximises their efficiency which drives revenue and cost savings. Plus, discover the number one pitfall software companies make when trying to automate their processes.

Season 3 - Episode 8: Blockchain tech insights for software execs with Christian de Vartavan

"Blockchain tech insights for software execs - with Dr Christian de Vartavan  Hear from an advisor to the UK government about the surprising ways software companies can use Blockchain technology to their benefit, also how companies who don’t use it are being left behind, and finally, hear Christian’s expert prediction for Blockchain going forwards (and how it’ll affect your software business). Listen to this BOSS-it episode now hosted by top M&A deal maker, Mark Edwards. Contact Christian ...

Season 3 - Episode 7: Ransomware attacks, innovation mistakes, & cyber security with Leon Kuperman

Ransomware attacks, innovation mistakes, & cyber security - with Leon Kuperman Hear Leon’s personal story about the ransomware attack that struck when they were making between $750k-1m sales a day, the unorthodox ways he keeps his engineers happy, and the one innovation mistake that’s so common in the software industry. Listen to this BOSS-it episode now hosted by top M&A deal maker Mark Edwards. Contact Leon here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itexecutivecto/ & www.Cast.ai

Season 3 - Episode 6: World-Class AI & Machine Learning Insights with Dr. Luca Marchesotti

Hear about the one thing about AI that our industry needs to urgently address, future areas he believes are worth investing resources into, and about the big machine learning study he did while working as a senior scientist at Xerox. Listen to this BOSS-it episode now hosted by top M&A deal maker Mark Edwards. Contact Luca here: www.sparkd.ai

Season 2 - Episode 40: "Making Elephants Fly" with Steve Hoffman

For the last episode of Season 2, Mark was delighted to host Steve Hoffman, CEO of Founders Space and author of three startup-related books (links below). The conversation between the two CEOs is far-ranging, lively and entertaining - Steve's energy and enthusiasm for what he does are infectious. From early ambitions to be an architect, filmmaker or games designer, Steve admits he never expected to end up being a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and writer. Founders Space - the Platform f...

Season 3 - Episode 5: "Hypatos Deep Learning Data Extraction" with Uli Erxleben

In this episode of BOSS-it, Mark Edwards talks with Uli Erxleben, Co-founder and Managing Director of Hypatos. The conversation ranges widely over topics including IDP (Intelligent Document Processing), Neural Networks, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) but ultimately, it's all about the humans who use the tech. Hypatos - Unusual Origins Mark shares a joke with Uli about the origin of the company name, Hypatos, which is not what he had thought. You'll need to listen to...

Season 3: Episode 4 - “Quitting Janitorial Duties & 'White Hat' SEO” with Sean Si, Founder of SEO Hacker

In this last episode of Season 2 BOSS-it podcast, Mark Edwards has a warm and engaging conversation with Sean Si, CEO & Founder of SEO Hacker. Early Beginnings Sean Si introduces himself as a born-again Christian from the Philippines. He runs a 50 people digital marketing agency, one of the most-trusted and leading SEO companies in the Philippines. He founded SEO Hacker at just 21 years old with only about (1300 pesos) $65 capital and it's now grown, through grit, prayer, mentorship, book...

Season 3 - Episode 1: "The Career Toolkit" with Mark Herschberg

BOSS-it host, Mark Edwards has a wide-ranging chat with CTO and author, Mark Herschberg, who, it turns out, has been a guest on 180 podcasts. No pressure there then for our host to ask some decent questions :-) Brief Bio for Mark Herschberg Back in the 90s, during the .com era, Mark was a software developer. At the same time, he recognised the skills required to be successful were leadership, communication and networking. These were skills that were not taught in college, so he ended up te...

Season 3 - Episode 2: "Delightful Automation at Scale" with John Taylor

In this podcast, Mark has an illuminating conversation with John Taylor of Action.ai, a company that offers the world's most advanced natural language technology, conceived by the best computational linguistics. Never one to shy away from a controversial question, Mark’s opening question, “Does AI really exist?”, doesn’t disappoint.  Taking this in his stride, John says it does exist but the term is much misused. He agrees that "AI" is an extraordinarily broad term that has, unfortunately,...

Season 3 - Episode 3: "Pivoting for Success in an Attention Deficit Economy" with Martha Amram

Mark Edwards talks with Martha Amram of Glynt.ai. Revisiting their previous conversation,Mark and Martha have an in-depth conversation, spanning exciting innovations in AI and Machine Learning, no-code platforms, the increasing demand for carbon emissions data and how companies can now make money from their data. Background With a PhD from MIT, Martha's background is in economics & finance. From there, she moved into the energy sector and for the last 8 years, she has been running Glynt, ...

Season 2 - Episode 39: "Becoming Top of Mind and Tip of Tongue" with Joseph Wilkins

Mark Edwards talks to Salt Lake City-based Joseph Wilkins of FunnySalesVideos.com, about how his company uses humorous videos to connect with audiences and drive massive sales.  Background.. In 2000, Joseph Wilkins founded ProCreative Studios, which produced infomercials for television & marketing videos for clients, including Google, Linkedin, McDonalds, Goldman Sachs, Chevrolet & Home Depot. As viewing habits shifted away from television, Joseph launched FunnySalesVideos.com where, afte...

Season 2 - Episode 38: The sales Monster with Alex Gesell

Season 2 - Episode 38: "Feeding the Sales Monster" with Alex Gesell

Mark Edwards talks with Alex Gesell of Imagine Growth, a training institute, focused on the tech sector. A true digital nomad, Alex lives globally, spending 3-6 months in the most beautiful places from Europe to Latin America, US, Africa to Asia - He has employees on all 5 continents and clients mainly in Europe and the US. It’s a fully virtual company, which he founded 2 years ago and built from the start with the idea of having a truly global company. It’s a company that embraces the nex...

Season 2 - Episode 37: "The Power of the Mind" with Matt Rosenthal

Mark Edwards has a stimulating conversation with Matt Rosenthal, CEO at Mind Core.  What Matt Finds Inspirational.. Matt says he likes change and uncertainty, coupled with having to figure things out and not being quite sure what’s coming next. He also loves failure as it forces him to push himself and to learn and to see how far he can go and what he’s capable of - He’s often surprised by what he can do and inspired by seeing what he can do and how far he can go in his life and how many p...

Season 2 - Episode 37: The Power of the Mind

Season 2 - Episode 36: Team Alignment

Season 2 - Episode 36: "Team Alignment" with Minter Dial

Mark Edwards  has an animated, all-encompassing chat with award-winning, published author, strategist and brand expert Minter Dial Background Minter is a welcome and lively guest on BOSS-it. He introduces himself as 56 years old, living in London, an American citizen with a French passport, married to a Spanish lady He's changed profession & moved country 15 times, worked at L’Oréal cosmetics company for 16 years and also at an investment bank. He started a travel agency for musicians, ta...

Season 2 - Episode 35: New York Detective Veteran to Entrepreneurial Veteran with Greg Demitrou

Season 2 - Episode 35: New York Detective Veteran to Entrepreneurial Veteran

Season 2 - Episode 35: "New York Detective Veteran to Entrepreneurial Veteran" with Greg Demitrou

Mark Edwards has a lively and engaging conversation with seasoned US entrepreneur and former NYPD detective, Greg Demitrou. Background Greg is CEO of Lorraine Gregory Communications and Greg’s Corner Office. A retired NYC Detective, he rebranded himself in the marketing space, where he's been for almost 30 years. Greg says being a detective was an ‘interesting ride’ that gave him many skills, including ‘good ears’, so when he's talking to marketing clients those skills help him listen and...

Season 2 - Episode 34: Ben Ivey - Entrepreneur Lifestyle

Season 2 - Episode 34: Entrepreneur Lifestyle with Ben Ivey

Season 2 - Episode 33: The Commando Mindset

This week, Mark Edwards talks to former Royal Marines Commando, Ben Williams. From taking drugs to being pinned down under Taliban fire, Ben took some hard knocks in his teenage years, which prompted him to decide that a life of crime wasn't for him - So, he joined the Marines to find out if he was part of the 0.1% who would make it through training. After a tour in Afghanistan at the height of the conflict, Ben returned to the UK and trained new recruits for 3 years, before being given a ...

Season 2 - Episode 32: Former Fallen Angel

In this highly entertaining, both serious and amusing podcast, David Angel talks to Mark Edwards about the gratitude he now has for his life.  Starting life as a chef and 'accidentally' falling into sales, David went from door-to-door sales to in-office calling - 300 calls a day.  As a saleman and manager of sales teams, his drink and substance abuse gradually increased to a point where he lost everything and found himself living in his car.  From this rock bottom, David gradually rebuilt...

Season 2 - Episode 31: Trust-Based Selling

Warning to Salespeople: This might hurt - just a bit In this week's podcast, Mark Edwards talks to Ari Galper, the World No1 authority on "trust-based selling".  Some 20 years ago, Ari was a sales manager in a software company, selling an innovative tracking solution.  It was after an hour-long, online demo - which Ari describes as a "Lovefest on the phone" - that Ari had an epiphany that changed the way he saw and approached selling from that moment forward. After that demo, Ari realise...

Season 2 - Episode 30: Rainmaker LinkedIn Lead Generation

Mark Edwards Talks with Gordon Ho, founder and Head Rainmaker at Rainmakerdots. The main problems Gordon sees with lead generation are lack of time and consistency He says, sales prospecting never sleeps – so therefore, you have to commit the time and be consistent with it – Otherwise the pipeline will fall off. Nobody likes to do prospecting but it has to be done. https://www.rainmakerdots.com/

Season 2 - Episode 28: The Presentation Maestro

Season 2 - Episode 27: Thought Leadership and Communication

Season 2 - Episode 29: Chasing Black Unicorns

Season 2 - Episode 25: 'All Children Are Born Short' - The Importance of Diversity & Inclusion

Season 2 - Episode 26: The Professor of Creativity

Season 2 - Episode 24: The Growth Hacker

Season 2 - Episode 22: From Start Up Lessons to Fostering Authentic Communications

With a background as an M&A lawyer in Israel, and several successful start ups to his name, Dan Ziv is now CEO of TouchNote.  Dan describes TouchNote as a creative platform for personal communication, where people upload their own images and send them as postcards, greetings cards etc.  TouchNote's primary differentiator is that they are a “Mobile first” platform, optimised for ease of use, with a particular focus on personalisation. Amongst a range of topics, Dan explains how they have p...

Season 2 - Episode 21: Busting Silicone Valley's Start Up Myths

A New Way to Succeed as a Software Tech Entrepreneur In this episode of Boss-it, Uruguayan immigrant, Sandra Shpilberg tells her fascinating story, from landing in New York, aged just 16, with her family, through educating herself, to finding a mission to do work that would make an impact. Sandra is an author, tech entrepreneur as well as Top 40 Healthcare Transformer. She founded, built & sold Seeker Health, a digital platform that connects seriously ill patients with clinical trials. Sa...

Season 2 - Episode 23: "A Man of Culture"

Simon Grosse, CEO at "Great Place to Work", award-winning company, Foundation-SP, talks to Mark Edwards.  We learn how his company has evolved from a services model to being a provider of Pulse 360 software that assists organisations in managing their employee culture, communications, expectations and well-being. Simon explains how he and his colleagues have fostered a very direct & open culture of communicating the things that are going well as well as things that aren't.  He goes on to ...

Season 2 - Episode 20: Social Media Replaces Nothing but Complements Everything

B2B software sales veteran and Social Media marketing expert, Neil Schaffer, shares invaluable & easy to implement, marketing tips. He also discusses his new book, The Age of Influence with Mark Edwards. During his early sales career based in Asia, Neil ‘wore many hats’ and also learned to speak Japanese, Mandarin & Chinese along the way. It was on returning to the US during the 2008 crash, that he began to network via LinkedIn to find work. This proved so successful for him that he wrote h...

Season 2 - Episode 19: How to reduce your video editing time by 50%

Season 2 - Episode 17: Pivoting for Success

Mark Littlewood from BoS (Business of Software) talks to Mark about how he took on the mantle of running the Business of Software events both in the US and European - He explains how he and his team had to rapidly change tack from putting on an in-person event to hosting a 2-Day, online event for senior software sector executives & entreprenuers. And howe the online version was a resounding success. Each presenter speaks for approximately one hour on all aspects of the software sector. Mar...