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Episode 67: Trond Undheim on the Future of Technology and a Framework for Analyzing Forces of Disruption
May 21, 2021 12:48 - 38 minutes - 73 MBTrond Undheim is a futurist, investor, consultant, executive, speaker, entrepreneur and podcaster. He produces widely impactful podcasts: Futurized, which tracks the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment, and Augmented, which reveals stories behind the new era of industrial operations. Trond is trained as a social scientist with a career in technology and innovation, and is the author of a string of books helping make sense ...
Episode 66: Jeremy King on the greatest leaders he has ever seen (and how we can all keep learning leadership)
May 14, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes - 55.6 MBJeremy King is a trusted advisor to corporate boards and some of the nation’s most elite business leaders. He is also a serial connector helping move business information on opportunities at the intersection of talent, capital, entrepreneurs and business development. Jeremy is an entrepreneur himself, creating successful executive search firms and also a game-changing non-profit we will talk a bit about later called MissionLink. Today Jeremy is the founder and President of Benchmark Execut...
Episode 65: Ben Ford, Founder of Commando Development, on the OODA Loop and Tech Leadership
May 07, 2021 11:39 - 39 minutes - 75.1 MBBen Ford is the founder of Commando Development, a firm which leverages his deep background and experience in enterprise IT as well as his years in service as a Royal Marine to the benefit of technology teams in startups and large enterprises. In this OODAcast we discuss Ben's views on the history of Commando's, from the experiences that inspired Winston Churchill prior to his forming then in World War II up to today, capturing a surprising number of lessons for business and IT leaders tod...
Episode 64: Matt Devost on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Succeeding in Competitive Environments
April 29, 2021 19:42 - 41 minutes - 78.1 MBOODA CEO Matt Devost has a track record of executing on innovation via entrepreneurship. He has extensive past performance in cybersecurity, counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, and risk management issues, and deep experience in delivering value in those domains via entrepreneurship. In this OODAcast, Jen Hoar extracts lessons and insights from Matt's journey that will be relevant to creators, innovators and entrepreneurs at any stage of their journey. Some...
Episode 63: Max de Groen of Bain Capital PE on the Megatrends Driving Future Tech Enabled Investments
April 23, 2021 14:46 - 27 minutes - 52.4 MBMax de Groen is a managing director at Bain Capital Private Equity (one of the world's leading PE firms with over $130 billion of assets under management), where he focuses on investments in infrastructure, cybersecurity, and application software as well as internet and digital media. This means is is well positioned to help us understand more about the future of technology enabled businesses. Max joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2010. Prior to joining Bain Capital Private Equity, M...
Episode 62: Jim Clapper Shares Wisdom From A Career in Operational Intelligence
April 15, 2021 11:34 - 46 minutes - 87 MBSecurity, Risk Management and Intelligence professionals all know of Jim Clapper. He had a long and distinguished career in the US Air Force, which included leadership spanning the Vietnam era all the way to the end of the Cold War. By the time he retired he was a three star General, leading the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. After retirement he would later return to government service as head of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency just three days after 9/11. In 2007 he was...
Episode 61: Ray Wang, CEO and Founder of Constellation Research, On The Business Impact of Technology
April 09, 2021 11:55 - 20 minutes - 40.1 MBR “Ray” Wang is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research Inc., a research and advisory firm which studies disruptive business and exponential technology trends. You very likely have heard of Ray before. He is active on social media (follow him here). He is also frequently interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Cheddar, CGTN, Tech Crunch, ZDNet, Forbes, and Fortune. Ray is the ...
Episode 60: Lisa Porter On Innovation, Technology, Security and Lessons in Leadership
April 02, 2021 11:02 - 48 minutes - 90.6 MBLisa J. Porter has successfully lead some of the world's largest and most critical technology efforts. Her career started with a focus on academic rigor in pursuit of some of the toughest degrees, a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford. She would later lecture at MIT and then became a researcher for DARPA related projects, eventually becoming a DARPA program manager. Dr. Porter would later lead NASA's Aeronautics Portfolio, would become the first Di...
Episode 59: Nate Fick on Dynamic Leadership and Adapting to Change
March 25, 2021 12:46 - 43 minutes - 82 MBNate Fick's career has been eclectic, but with a common element of demonstrating superior leadership abilities in a diverse array of successful opportunities. Nate is currently a General Manager at Elastic, having joined the firm with their acquisition of Endgame where he served as CEO. Graduating from Dartmouth, Nate took an unconventional path of joining the military and serving as a USMC officer leading some of the first U.S. troop deployments into Afghanistan and Iraq after the Septemb...
Episode 48: Lessons In Leadership, Intelligence Analysis, and Geopolitical Trends From Retired LTG Robert Ashley, former Director of DIA
March 19, 2021 14:32 - 41 minutes - 77.4 MBLieutenant General Robert Ashley, USA (ret) was the 21st Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He retired in November 2020 after over 36 years of active-duty service as an intelligence officer. He had previously served as the Army’s lead for all intelligence (the Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2), where he was the senior advisor to the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff for all aspects of intelligence, counterintelligence and security. During his long career he comman...
Episode 58: Lessons In Leadership, Intelligence Analysis, and Geopolitical Trends From Retired LTG Robert Ashley, former Director of DIA
March 19, 2021 14:32 - 41 minutes - 77.4 MBLieutenant General Robert Ashley, USA (ret) was the 21st Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He retired in November 2020 after over 36 years of active-duty service as an intelligence officer. He had previously served as the Army’s lead for all intelligence (the Army Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2), where he was the senior advisor to the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff for all aspects of intelligence, counterintelligence and security. During his long career he comman...
Episode 47: Lessons In Leadership From Ellen McCarthy and Her Journey From Junior Analyst To The Most Senior Echelons of the Intelligence Community
March 10, 2021 18:54 - 53 minutes - 99.2 MBEllen McCarthy is a highly accomplished and distinguished executive whose career started as a junior analyst and ended up reaching to the very highest echelons of the US intelligence community. In this OODAcast we explore lessons learned from her journey, capturing insights that can inform actions for those at any stage of a career. Ellen’s career began at the office of Naval Intelligence. She then moved to Norfolk and the Atlantic Intelligence Center (where we first met). She moved back t...
Episode 57: Lessons In Leadership From Ellen McCarthy and Her Journey From Junior Analyst To The Most Senior Echelons of the Intelligence Community
March 10, 2021 18:54 - 53 minutes - 99.2 MBEllen McCarthy is a highly accomplished and distinguished executive whose career started as a junior analyst and ended up reaching to the very highest echelons of the US intelligence community. In this OODAcast we explore lessons learned from her journey, capturing insights that can inform actions for those at any stage of a career. Ellen’s career began at the office of Naval Intelligence. She then moved to Norfolk and the Atlantic Intelligence Center (where we first met). She moved back t...
Episode 56: Robert Wallace on a Career in Intelligence and The Spy Sites Series and Spy Craft
March 05, 2021 18:32 - 1 hour - 125 MBRobert Wallace spent a 33 year career with the Central Intelligence Agency and is widely known for the very well done books he and co-author Keith Melton have produced on the history, culture and tradecraft of intelligence (including the SpyCraft book which was turned into a Netflix series and the Spy Sites series of books documenting the intelligence history of Washington DC, New York and Philadelphia). This OODAcast examines Robert's career from the beginning, resulting in interesting st...
Episode 46: Robert Wallace on a Career in Intelligence and The Spy Sites Series and Spy Craft
March 05, 2021 18:32 - 1 hour - 125 MBRobert Wallace spent a 33 year career with the Central Intelligence Agency and is widely known for the very well done books he and co-author Keith Melton have produced on the history, culture and tradecraft of intelligence (including the SpyCraft book which was turned into a Netflix series and the Spy Sites series of books documenting the intelligence history of Washington DC, New York and Philadelphia). This OODAcast examines Robert's career from the beginning, resulting in interesting st...
Episode 55: Blake Bartlett, CEO of Janes, On Leadership and Decision Making In The Modern Age
February 26, 2021 13:54 - 31 minutes - 60.1 MBBlake Bartlett is the CEO of Janes, the well known and trusted provider of open source defense intelligence. In this OODAcast we examine lessons learned from Blake's career and path from a young student with a desire for a career in sports to success in the domain of sales. Blake believes sales is a perfect area for someone who has harnessed their passion for sports and winning and the ability to connect with people. From there he grew to leadership of several highly regarded market intel...
Episode 45: Blake Bartlett, CEO of Janes, On Leadership and Decision Making In The Modern Age
February 26, 2021 13:54 - 31 minutes - 60.1 MBBlake Bartlett is the CEO of Janes, the well known and trusted provider of open source defense intelligence. In this OODAcast we examine lessons learned from Blake's career and path from a young student with a desire for a career in sports to success in the domain of sales. Blake believes sales is a perfect area for someone who has harnessed their passion for sports and winning and the ability to connect with people. From there he grew to leadership of several highly regarded market intel...
Episode 54: Michele Wucker on Identifying and Confronting the Obvious Risks of Gray Rhinos
February 19, 2021 14:05 - 45 minutes - 85.1 MBMichele Wucker is specialist in risk management and crisis anticipation and is author of the book "The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore". While we've all become familiar with Taleb's concept of Black Swans, we must equally become intimately aquatinted with Wucker's Gray Rhinos as they provide more obvious opportunities for actually anticipating and managing risk. During this interview, Michele takes us through the concept of Gray Rhinos with real-world ...
Episode 44: Michele Wucker on Identifying and Confronting the Obvious Risks of Gray Rhinos
February 19, 2021 14:05 - 45 minutes - 85.1 MBMichele Wucker is specialist in risk management and crisis anticipation and is author of the book "The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore". While we've all become familiar with Taleb's concept of Black Swans, we must equally become intimately aquatinted with Wucker's Gray Rhinos as they provide more obvious opportunities for actually anticipating and managing risk. During this interview, Michele takes us through the concept of Gray Rhinos with real-world ...
Episode 53: Vikram Sharma, CEO of Quintessence Labs on Leadership in the Quantum Era
February 12, 2021 13:52 - 46 minutes - 87.6 MBVikram Sharma is the founder and CEO of Canberra Australia based QuintessenceLabs. His company provides solutions based on quantum technology to strengthen cryptographic key creation and management at scale. This is an urgent need in this era of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, and key to protecting data now and into the future. Q-Labs uses the world’s fastest random-number generator to create the strongest possible encryption keys, and integrates them into advanced key management ...
Episode 52: Former CIA Officer Rob Richer on the Geopolitical Landscape, Leadership Lessons Learned, and Supporting Decision-makers
February 05, 2021 16:43 - 39 minutes - 74.6 MBRob Richer is a highly regarded advisor to international executives and global government leaders including several heads of state. Rob has a well informed perspective on international risks and opportunities and an ability to analyze and distill observations in a way that is meaningful for your decision making process. In this OODAcast we cover the current state of global and domestic affairs, key leadership and decision-making lessons learned derived from Rob's extensive CIA career. As a...
Episode 51: Camila Russo on Ethereum and the Future of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
January 28, 2021 20:04 - 40 minutes - 77 MBThis week's OODAcast features an interview with Camila Russo, the author of the book "The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum". Camila is also the founder of the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) site The Defiant, which tracks developments, emerging trends, and news in the fast moving DeFi space. In this interview, Camila shares how her experience covering fiat currency issues as a reporter for Bloomberg sparked her interest in Bitcoin and...
Episode 50: Will Hurd on Skills For Success In The Modern Age
January 21, 2021 20:42 - 43 minutes - 80.6 MBFormer Congressman Will Hurd joins us on this episode of OODACast to discuss what he has learned about business and entrepreneurship from a diverse career in the intelligence community, elected office and the private sector. Will has successfully leveraged the skills of a CIA operations officer in a variety of contexts, including the founding of cybersecurity firm FusionX with OODA co-founder, Matt Devost. Will most recently served in Congress as the representative for Texas' 23rd district f...
Episode 49: Kathy and Randy Pherson, Authors of Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence
January 15, 2021 16:20 - 44 minutes - 83.4 MBKathy and Randy Pherson both had successful careers in the US Intelligence Community, where they pioneered new analytical methods and would later help bring those methods to widespread adoption in the community. Both are also successful business leaders who created companies that build value for others. In the OODAcast we discuss the third edition of their book: Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence. They provide their context on what a good intelligence program in industry or gover...
Episode 48: Ric Prado on Intelligence Operations and a Legendary Career in the CIA
January 05, 2021 17:19 - 47 minutes - 89.9 MBRic Prado has been described by CIA leadership as the closest thing to 007 that the United States has ever had. Ric's life is packed with more adventure and operations than your favorite spy novel series. Coming out of the shadows, this is Ric's first video interview and covers his career, operational decision-making lessons learned, why we need a next generation of CIA agents, and we even dive into some more obscure topics like CIA knife fighting and how he came to train the King of Jordan....
Episode 47: The Top 10 Security, Technology, and Business Books of 2020
December 22, 2020 19:49 - 28 minutes - 54 MBIn this OODAcast, Bob Gourley and Matt Devost discuss Matt's picks for the Top 10 Security, Technology, and Business Books of the year. Now in its 5th year, Matt's top ten book list is one of the most popular posts of the year and we look forward to interviewing several of the authors on OODAcast in 2021. Also see the full write up of the Top 10 list here: https://www.oodaloop.com/archive/2020/12/07/top-10-security-technology-and-business-books-of-2020/
Episode 46: Mischel Kwon, Founder and CEO of W@tchTower
December 17, 2020 21:17 - 31 minutes - 59.8 MBIn this OODAcast we interview Michel Kwon, the founder and CEO of W@tchTower. She is a leader who has proven herself through an ability to success in three different career fields, first as a developer and programmer creating enterprise grade solutions, then as a government executive who would eventually lead the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)during a critical period in its transformation, and now as an entrepreneur and CEO adding value to enterprises seeking to re...
Episode 45: Juan Enriquez On Technology, Ethics and the Future
December 11, 2020 15:43 - 51 minutes - 95.5 MBJuan Enriquez has succeeded as a businessman, academic, author and lecturer. For those who might not have met him via any of his many appearances and presentations, he can be succinctly described as an authority on the economic and political impacts of life sciences and a thinker able to help frame the much needed discussions we all need to have on ethics. He serves on the discovery council at Harvard Medical School and was the founding director of Harvard Business School’s Life Sciences P...
Episode 44: Masha Sedova, Co-Founder Elevate Security on Human Risk Management
December 04, 2020 13:49 - 45 minutes - 85.5 MBMasha Sedova is an award-winning people-security expert, speaker, and entrepreneur focused on helping companies transform employees from a risk into a key element of defense. She has been a part of our OODA Network for years, including speaking at our legacy FedCyber event, where she introduced the behavior-based and gamified cybersecurity training and awareness she put in place at Salesforce. She is the co-founder of Elevate Security delivering an employee-risk management platform that ...
Episode 43: Bob Gourley on Operational Intelligence for Strategic Decision-making
November 20, 2020 15:54 - 33 minutes - 63.9 MBIn this OODAcast, OODA Network Expert Jen Hoar interviews noted cybersecurity and intelligence professional Bob Gourley, CTO of OODA LLC, diving deep into what makes him tick. Jen asks Bob about his career, including the constants and dynamics in his professional life, starting with a deep background in operational intelligence as a naval intelligence officer. She explores his strengths and weaknesses and how he makes decisions in domains of overwhelming information. Jen asks Bob for advic...
Episode 42: CEO of Women's Society of Cyberjutsu and Cybersecurity Leader Mari Galloway
November 13, 2020 01:05 - 27 minutes - 51.7 MBLike many others we have observed first hand the positive changes in the cybersecurity community being enabled by Mari Galloway. In this OODAcast we look beyond those changes to find out what makes her tick, revealing lessons applicable to professionals in any stage of their career. Mari is the CEO and a founding board member for the Women's Society of Cyberjutsu (WSC), one of the fastest growing 501c3 non-profit cybersecurity communities. WSC is dedicated to bringing more women and girls ...
Episode 41: Technology Risk Executive and former NASA CISO and CIO Jerry Davis
November 06, 2020 17:40 - 43 minutes - 81.7 MBJerry Davis has spent decades succeeding in hard jobs supporting critically important missions. He is a decorated combat Veteran who served in he US Marines for 11 years including in Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield. He also served in the Central Intelligence Agency in service to world wide missions including leveraging technology in denied areas against high profile targets. Jerry would later become the first CISO at the US Department of Education, then the CISO for NASA and later the ...
Episode 40: Paul Kurtz, Iconic Cybersecurity Leader and Founder of TruSTAR
October 30, 2020 19:18 - 44 minutes - 83.5 MBPaul Kurtz is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity and the Co-Founder and Chairman of TruSTAR. Paul began working on cybersecurity at the White House in the late 1990s. He served in senior positions relating to critical infrastructure and counterterrorism on the White House's National Security and Homeland Security Councils under Presidents Clinton and Bush. After leaving government, Paul has held numerous private sector cybersecurity positions including founding the Cyb...
Episode 39: Rear Admiral Paul Becker, USN (ret) on leadership in the modern age
October 23, 2020 13:54 - 36 minutes - 68.6 MBRear Admiral Paul Becker, USN (Retired), is an author, speaker and board member with extensive experience in intelligence operations. During his 30 year career as a naval intelligence officer he lead major operational intelligence efforts, rising to the position of Director of Intelligence (J2) for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Upon retirement from the Navy he formed a consultancy delivering solutions and lessons learned around intelligence to corporate America. He is also a professor, teachi...
Episode 38: Dr. Melissa Flagg of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology
October 16, 2020 13:38 - 35 minutes - 68 MBDr. Melissa Flagg is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University. Previously she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research, responsible for policy and oversight Defense Department science and technology programs including basic research through advanced technology development and the DoD laboratory enterprise. She has worked at the State Department, the Office of Naval Research, the Office of the Secretary of Defen...
Episode 37: Mark Weatherford On Leading Change As a CISO
October 12, 2020 13:01 - 33 minutes - 63.1 MBMark Weatherford is an icon in the cybersecurity field. He is widely known as a mission focused leader who builds teams and gets hard things done. His career included success in the US Navy as a cryptologist, leadership and management in a major defense integrator, CISO for two states (Colorado and California), CISO of the nation's regulatory organization for our power grid (the NERC), head of security efforts for the newly formed DHS, and operational CISO roles and advisory board positions ...
Episode 36: Matt Devost on Hacking Entrepreneurship and Identifying Threats and Opportunities
October 01, 2020 23:29 - 58 minutes - 109 MBIn this OODAcast, the tables are turned as OODA Network Expert Jen Hoar interviews CEO Matt Devost and they discuss how Matt consistently identified new threats and opportunities by blending eccentric interests into a career as a serial entrepreneur and become an established expert on cybersecurity, counterterrorism, and technology issues. Having been educated in a one-room schoolhouse in the rural Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, Matt identified a way to blend his interests in emerging natio...
Episode 35: Kevin Roberts on Leadership, Decision-making, and Focused Action
September 24, 2020 22:05 - 55 minutes - 105 MBKevin Roberts has had an illustrious career spanning many industries over numerous continents including serving as Chairman and CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, one of the world’s leading creative organizations, where he had responsibility for the effectiveness of several of the world’s leading advertising budgets including for clients Toyota and Procter & Gamble. Today, his company Red Rose Consulting counsels business leaders and employees on creative thinking, marketing, and leadership. Kevin ...
Episode 34: Gary Harrington on Leadership Lessons from Delta Force to the CIA
September 18, 2020 00:01 - 38 minutes - 73.1 MBGary Harrington had a distinguished career of national service that included over three decades in top tier special operations groups including Delta Force and then transitioning into the CIA. Gary was one of the first to deploy into Afghanistan after 9/11 and was at the tip of the spear in many locations including as a solo operator in high risk venues like Yemen. Today Gary advises private clients on approaches to maintaining security and safety in a volatile and unpredictable world. In ...
Episode 33: Michael Kanaan, Author of T-Minus AI Discusses Artificial Intelligence and Global Power
September 11, 2020 16:21 - 45 minutes - 85 MBMichael Kanaan has helped a wide swath of decision-makers better grasp the nature of AI. He has a knack for expressing complex topics in clear, accurate and succinct ways and many of us in the national security community have already had the pleasure of hearing from him in person or in conferences. His book, T-Minus AI: Humanity’s Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power, provides context and insights in a way that can help concerned citizens and business le...
Episode 32: Jim Miller on Managing Policy in an Age of Constant Disruption and Dynamic Threats
September 03, 2020 13:54 - 50 minutes - 95.4 MBJim Miller has worked for four decades on a combination of private and public sector initiatives focused on addressing a wide variety of national security threats. He has held numerous positions within the Department of Defense including serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and has been awarded the DoD's highest civilian award four times. In this OODAcast, we discuss a wide variety of topics including: How to use red teaming to plan for emerging threats and opportunities Ho...
Episode 31: Chet Richards on John Boyd and applying OODA principles to the business world
August 28, 2020 02:07 - 1 hour - 123 MBChet Richards was a close associate of the late US Air Force Colonel John Boyd. He was there as the concept of the OODA Loop was being developed and constructed the first graphics of the OODA Loop from sketches Boyd drew. Chet is the author of the widely read business book "Certain to Win" which was the first book to describe Boyd's strategy in terms familiar to business leaders and show how the OODA Loop and associated Boyd concepts apply to today's business problems. Business is not war,...
Episode 30: Courtney Bowman, Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineer, Palantir Technologies
August 19, 2020 12:31 - 33 minutes - 64 MBCourtney Bowman leads Palantir's Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering Team. In this capacity he works extensively with local, state and international governments and philanthropic partners to develop technology-driven solutions to information sharing needs that respect applicable privacy, security and data integrity requirements. He does so in a way that is informed by experience and well thought out approaches that we consider an exemplar for tech firms, enterprises and government data s...
Episode 29: Kevin DeSanto On Due Diligence and M&A Transactions and Trust Based Networking
August 13, 2020 14:23 - 36 minutes - 68.9 MBKevin DeSanto is an investment banker delivering advice and execution assistance to high growth businesses preparing for M&A and financial transactions. His company, KippsDeSanto, has developed a reputation for trusted execution support for companies in government contracting, aerospace, defense and cybersecurity. He leads teams that advise senior management, boards of directors and shareholders. The art and science of this type of investment banking can only be perfected by experience and...
Episode 28: Bradley Rotter On The Future Of Work, CryptoCurrencies, Quantum Computing and Leadership
August 06, 2020 13:57 - 38 minutes - 74.1 MBBradley Rotter is a visionary investor who has pioneered investments in many new alternative investments classes including having been an early backer of hedge funds in 1982 while speculating on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He was also an early investor in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency ecosystems and at a dinner with OODA CEO Matt Devost in 2012 predicted Bitcoin would exceed the price of gold. Bradley moved to San Francisco in mid 80's to be close to the technology fountainhead of ...
Episode 27: Andy Lustig On Legal and Due Diligence Support In The High Tech Era
July 30, 2020 16:11 - 34 minutes - 65.4 MBAndrew (Andy) Lustig is a partner at the high tech law firm Cooley, where he focuses on private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions and the general corporate representation of high-growth technology companies in both the commercial and government marketplace. His practice includes a wide range of industry sectors including information technology, national security, cybersecurity, data analytics, software and telecommunications. He also represents a number of leading venture capital ...
Episode 26: Paul Pagnato, CEO and Founder at PagnatoKarp and Author of The Transparency Wave
July 23, 2020 23:59 - 33 minutes - 63.7 MBPaul Pagnato migrated from a career as a scientist looking for life in outer space to one of the top financial advisors in the U.S. with a keen eye for tracking innovation, exponential change, and other emerging global issues. He is also the author of the recent book, The Transparency Wave, which highlights the essential role that transparency plays in future innovation and entrepreneurial success. Paul A. Pagnato is Co-Chairman Cresset, Founder PagnatoKarp, a top family office and private...
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July 16, 2020 12:28 - 23 minutes - 44.9 MBBill Crowell is a senior executive with extensive experience in government (rose to the level of Deputy Director of the National Security Agency) and in industry. He has been a CEO of leading companies like Cylink, taking them through growth to acquisition. He has been a director of multiple public and private companies with a track record of steering firms to profitability and successful exits. He continues to serve on corporate boards while also helping steer successful operations at one o...
Episode 25: Alsop-Louie Partner and Famed Tech Executive Bill Crowell on Technology Due Diligence
July 16, 2020 12:28 - 23 minutes - 44.9 MBBill Crowell is a senior executive with extensive experience in government (rose to the level of Deputy Director of the National Security Agency) and in industry. He has been a CEO of leading companies like Cylink, taking them through growth to acquisition. He has been a director of multiple public and private companies with a track record of steering firms to profitability and successful exits. He continues to serve on corporate boards while also helping steer successful operations at one o...
Episode 24: Mark Weatherford On Leading Change As a CISO
July 09, 2020 13:58 - 24 minutes - 47.7 MBMark Weatherford is an icon in the cybersecurity field. He is widely known as a mission focused leader who builds teams and gets hard things done. His career included success in the US Navy as a cryptologist, leadership and management in a major defense integrator, CISO for two states (Colorado and California), CISO of the nation's regulatory organization for our power grid (the NERC), head of security efforts for the newly formed DHS, and operational CISO roles and advisory board positions ...