

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans
Bob Evans
Cloud Wars analyzes the major cloud vendors from the perspective of business customers. In Cloud Wars Live, Bob Evans talks with both sides about these profoundly transformative technologies, and with monthly All-Star guests from across the business community about the trends impacting how the world lives, works, plays, and dreams. Visit https://cloudwars.com for more.
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Nov 21, 2018 • 18min
Pierre-Luc Bisaillon, CIO @ Cirque du Soleil
Pierre-Luc Bisaillon is a seasoned executive with more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry. Pierre-Luc leads the global IT organization at Cirque du Soleil. His background is a unique combination of strategy consulting, entrepreneurship and technology, enabling him to provide sharp insights and impactful recommendations. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Nov 16, 2018 • 35min
Tom Fisher, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, MapR Technologies
Tom Fisher is a legendary executive with a successful record of accomplishment nationally and internationally for the development, implementation and delivery of solutions on the Internet, eCommerce, Software as a Service (SaaS) and other high technology sectors. He is currently EVP and CTO of MapR Technologies, which is the industry’s leading platform for AI and analytics. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Nov 13, 2018 • 34min
Ganesh Kumar, Senior EVP, COO and Head of Retail Banking & Business Development, OFG Bancorp
Dr. Ganesh Kumar has been the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of OFG Bancorp since March 2017. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Oriental Financial Group Inc. since January 2012 until March 2017 and served as its Executive Vice President until March 2017. Dr. Kumar is responsible for corporate finance, strategic planning, accounting and financial reporting and business analytics. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Oct 29, 2018 • 39min
Joe Stafura, CEO/Founder at THRIVE
From NASA to his latest venture, THRIVE, Joe Stafura is a visionary who is always three steps ahead of technological change.Joe’s Affective Computing Company provides solutions to complex environments such as distributed work forces, multidisciplinary work teams, and value chain management and assessment across different organizations.Its flagship product, THRIVE (www.gothrive.io) is a unique, and sustainable option to traditional training, coaching and consulting options. Its modern design provides professional communicators and managers the ability to build long-running sets of learning conversations, leveraging the knowledge of the organization and trusted expert sources. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Oct 19, 2018 • 18min
Dan Giurleo, Financial Systems Consultant, Care.com
In his role at Care.com, Dan Giurleo is responsible for the evaluation and negotiation of global ERP and EPM technology platforms. He led the execution of a global Workday Financials implementation, including data model design, business process definition, system configuration, roles and security definition, data conversion, testing, and report design. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Oct 17, 2018 • 33min
Tony Uphoff, President & Chief Executive Officer at Thomas
Tony Uphoff is an award-winning digital media, live event, and marketing services executive. He is an accomplished operating executive with an unparalleled track record of building, growing and transforming media and marketing businesses. Tony’s transformative leadership of companies, cultures, people, and organizational performance led to building the largest single brand in B2B – InformationWeek – and to the sale of CMP Media to UBM for $940M. He was also responsible for leading The Hollywood Reporter to surpass rival Variety in market share for first time in its 75-year history.He is now President and CEO of Thomasnet.com, a 120 year-old company that's the leading platform for product sourcing, supplier selection and actionable information for industrial decision makers and the marketers looking to reach, engage and sell to them. Thomasnet.com, Thomas Marketing Services, and Thomas Product Data Solutions form the largest, most advanced marketing system in the world for the industrial markets. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Oct 14, 2018 • 34min
Sean Ammirati, Partner at Birchmere Labs & Birchmere Ventures
Sean Ammirati is a partner at Birchmere Ventures focused on both SaaS and Consumer Internet investments as well as their Birchmere Labs (www.birchmerelabs.com) initiative and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School. Most Recently Sean was COO of ReadWriteWeb, one of the most influential sites about the future of technology and innovation. In December 2011, the company was acquired by SAY Media to strengthen its technology channel. Sean was previously co-founder and CEO of mSpoke, which was the first acquisition of LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Oct 12, 2018 • 27min
Stuart Bashford, Digital Officer at Bühler Group
Stuart Bashford is the digital officer for the Swiss-based Bühler Group, a $3B, family-owned company that is 158 years old. Every day, billions of people use Bühler technologies and solutions to satisfy their basic needs for food, mobility, or communication. Hear Stuart discuss cloud, AI, and the Internet of Things. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Oct 11, 2018 • 16min
Bobby Berry, Senior Vice President Business Solutions at Fruit of the Loom, Berkshire Hathaway
It's all about speed. Bobby Berry heads a team that is transforming Fruit of the Loom for the digital age, where consumers expect up-to-the-minute styles, and partners expect the latest in digital business platforms. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Oct 8, 2018 • 19min
Rishabh Sinha, Senior Director, IT Applications, Murad LLC
As Senior Director responsible for Murad's entire portfolio of global Oracle applications and IT services, Rish Sinha focuses on coordination with technology and its business partners to provide a consensus-based enterprise solutions that are scalable, adaptable, and in synchronization with ever-changing business needs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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