The G&T Sessions

Iskren is on a mission - KindLink - the social network for sustainable businesses and transparent non-profits, Iskren Kulev is the co-founder and CEO of KindLink, the online platform where businesses and charities connect and manage their corporate social responsibility, fundraising, volunteering, donor Customer Relationship Management, and measure and share their sustainability impact. He has a background in FinTech, and he holds an MBA from Henley, one of the top 5 UK business schools. Through his work with KindLink, Iskren has received coverage from international news outlets such as the BBC and Bloomberg TV. Founded in 2015, KindLink started as a movement to bring greater transparency to the charity sector, and help entities in the space attract more donations. It evolved into the go-to place for companies that are looking to manage their CSR and find more causes worthy of support in the process, as well as empower their team to place doing good at the core of their work life. KindLink also offers extensive support for charities in all their endeavours - from fundraising to attracting new supporters through the newly-launched marketplace for opportunities. KindLink has a current ecosystem of over 1,300 charities around the world. KindLink has a board of four directors and is led by Iskren Kulev, CEO and Founder. Wonderful episode with Iskren where he shares his journey from zero to today, and the peaks and valleys of his own personal path to success. Iskren and Kindlink have also very kindly agreed to provide their platform for my Motor Neurone Disease Association Charity Fundraise, which I announced on my Birthday in April 2021. This will allow me to collect donations to raising £1M [$1.4M] for MNDA during the 2022 and 2023 period with a series of challenges and events to raise awareness and critical funding on research and to help individuals and families affected by MNDA. MND was the condition that took my father, Ray to the next life 16 years ago and I am proud to be given a place to run the London Marathon in October 2022 to honour his life and this mission #1MMND. Thank you Iskren and enjoy the episode! Social links https://www.facebook.com/kindlinked ;  https://twitter.com/kindlink  https://www.linkedin.com/company/kindlink/ 

Garry describes himself as a Hacker/Hustler with decades of experience building and shipping Digital Products. He has been a software engineer, systems architect & consultant for over three decades. He has worked across a range of industries with a strong focus on applications for data and intelligence. He has worked for blue-chip organisations as well start-ups where he has had both successes and failures as a founder. He has also been a DJ, Music Maker and sound artist for a little longer. He first started playing records and making music in the 1980s. He loved plugging synths and other equipment together to find out what noise they could make. He can still be found creating audio feedback loops using mobile phones and Zoom. He is currently CEO/CTO at Kinicho, an early-stage start-up specialising in volumetric spatial audio. Great episode and an amazing mission, where Garry shares some great stories of his experiences with even Harry Potter to validate the hypothesis to take on the Audio Market and re-define it for the future for all of us. Enjoy! https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryhaywood/ https://twitter.com/kinicho

Welcome to 2022, and pleased with achieving my 70th Episode of The G&T Sessions today, with Jeroen Corthout, Co-Founder & CEO of Salesflare. Jeroen joins the show from Antwerp, Belgium where Salesflare global HQ is based, and this was a great episode covering the journey from finding a problem worth solving to building an at scale global software business over the last 7 years. Salesflare, os an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and SaaS companies. Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to manage the leads for their own software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of them manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data together automatically. It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features. Jeroen shares some great insights, his peaks and valleys in a market that is gigantic and growing at pace. Enjoy the episode and welcome to more Episodes in 2022 and beyond...as our plan this year is to achieve 150 episodes at least if we can do it !! Let's go ! https://linkedin.com/in/jeroencorthout

Lucas Caneda is originally from Argentina, and now Global Team Lead at UNIQORN Incubator and a professional rugby player for Sarlat Rugby Team. A student of engineering, management, economics, and self-taught in nutrition and fitness, Lucas has always had a very keen interest in business, entrepreneurship, and personal development. Which lead him to be the Director of one of UNIQORN startups, CXSports, a SaaS company who is turning amateur sport clubs into pro. Very much enjoyed this episode with Lucas and he shared some great insights into the world of sports and how we can learn in business. Links to Lucas and his ventures https://cxsports.io https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucascaneda https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCejZnY7hIfI5psW3rpCBVWQ/featured https://www.instagram.com/lukicaneda

Dan Mallin is a force in technology-based entrepreneurship, creating transformative tools that serve the needs of Fortune 1000s and the agencies that serve them. Working with business partner Scott Litman, he’s repeatedly broken new ground in the digital marketing services space. Together, the two have grown and sold four businesses and built forward-thinking ad tech platforms that are still in use day-to-day by some of the world’s largest brands, agencies and media firms. Today, Dan is the Co-founder of Equals 3, where he and his team created Lucy, the AI-powered knowledge management platform. Since launching in May 2016, Lucy was awarded the 2016 IBM Watson Innovative Partner Award, earned DMA’s Innovation Award, called the AdTech product to watch in 2017 by Advertising Age and was one of only four AI solutions on Gartner’s 2017 Cool Vendor List. Awards include: ·     Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year ·     University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement ·     The Business Journal's Titans of Technology ·     Twin Cities Business 200 Minnesotans You Should Know ·     The Business Journal's 40 Under 40 ·     University of Minnesota Alumni Service Award ·     Minnesota Business Magazine’s Real Power 50 Great episode with Dan, the second Dan who's a CEO published this month but we did have Scarlett with us too just to keep us company. Enjoy ! linkedin.com/in/mallin/ Twitter @danmallin  

Dan Martell is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who has built several multi-million dollar tech companies. He shares his transformational journey from a troubled youth to thriving in B2B SaaS. The conversation dives into personal growth, effective delegation, and the role of supportive teams in overcoming challenges. Martell emphasizes the core responsibilities of effective leadership, including talent development and execution strategies. He discusses embracing challenges for lasting fulfillment and sustainable business growth, offering invaluable insights for aspiring entrepreneurs.

At just 12, Mike Wimmer is already being called the real Tony Stark and the Musk, Jobs, and Gates of his generation. Mike recently made worldwide press for graduating from both high school and college in the same week. His work in artificial intelligence and machine learning gained the attention of the military. To date, Mike has completed six contracts with the United States Special Operations Command, receiving numerous awards for his efforts. Additionally, Mike has been invited to speak at conventions, schools, and podcasts, including Mensa, IEEE Berlin, DataRobot’s More Intelligent Tomorrow Series, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Mike has also presented and been a technical instructor at the International NAO Robotics Congress. Mike learned the value of perseverance at an early age navigating through a world not equipped for profoundly gifted students. Realising there is always more than one way to reach a goal allows Mike to view the world with a nothing is impossible attitude.  Mike learned his robotic and programming knowledge through trial and error, books and videos, and online documentation. His desire to help others motivated Mike to become an entrepreneur with a goal of “building technology that enables people to live better lives.” He has started two technology companies, the first at seven years old, Next Era Innovations. His most recent start-up, Reflect Social, provides an easy and fun codeless integration platform for IoT devices that anyone can use. When not attending school, scaling a company, or working for the military, Mike can be found SIM racing with friends, playing with Legos and Hotwheels, and on the weekends, you will likely find him in the paddock of an IMSA Sportscar race. This was a wonderful episode and hope this inspires many more of my audience with your son's and daughter's to go the extra mile and see what they can achieve while on this planet. It's a topic I will be discussing with my sons, Ben & James this weekend for sure. Mike aka “The Real Tony Stark” LInkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-wimmer-9738b5167/ Mike's businesses aka Tech Startups www.nexterainnovations.com www.reflect.social IG and Twitter @mike_aighost

For many years, Gary has helped business from public to private sector to improve their security and data protection. Taking the complex and making it simple is what makes Gary special. Working for @GE Money, @Laterooms.com and now running Cybersecurity business @Cyberfort Group he’s had industry recognition as Business Continuity & Cybersecurity Personality of the Year. He’s also written widely on the topic including The Dummies Guide to Business Continuity. Now working with the Resilience Association and YCSC, Gary is influencing a whole industry, either directly or indirectly through his support to steer these groups or participating in events at a national level. And he was recently interviewed on the BBC News about the topics of Data Privacy and protection. Starting as a developer many years ago, he is now deemed the Professor of Communicating Cyber, as he talks in schools (including primary) through to Universities on the topics of cyber security, risk, business continuity and organisational resilience.as we all live in such a tech dominant world it’s amazing what you need to know. Hope you learn something new and enjoy the episode 

Anthony is co-founder and CEO at SeedLegals, a LegalTech platform that lets startups and investors complete the legals needed to build, grow and fund their business, at a fraction of the cost of using a law firm. More than one in six of all early-stage funding rounds in the UK are now done on SeedLegals. Anthony’s career has included 3D graphics, P2P music, internet video, social TV and online communities. In 2015 Anthony founded 6Tribes, a world of communities based on shared interests. 6Tribes was acquired less than a year later. Previously, Anthony co-founded Beamly, a social and content network for television, which was acquired by Coty in 2015. Known as “The man behind BBC iPlayer”, Anthony ran the iPlayer and other BBC services from 2007 to 2010, taking the iPlayer from pre-launch to major success story. Anthony’s patent portfolio includes patents for distributed online rewards, content discovery and interactive television. Great episode with Anthony and packed with valuable advice and guidance - thank you! Enjoy! https://seedlegals.com https://twitter.com/anthonyrose https://www.linkedin.com/in/anrose/

Cindi Howson is the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot and host of The Data Chief podcast. Cindi is an analytics and BI thought leader and expert with a flair for bridging business needs with technology. As Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, she advises top clients on data strategy and best practices to becoming data- driven, influences ThoughtSpot’s product strategy, and is the host of The Data Chief podcast. Cindi was previously a Gartner research Vice President, as the lead author for the data and analytics maturity model and analytics and BI Magic Quadrant, and a popular keynote speaker. She introduced new research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics and brought both the BI bake offs and innovation panels to Gartner globally. She’s rated a top 12 influencer in big data and analytics by Onalytca, Solutions Review, and Humans of Data. Prior to joining Gartner, she was founder of BI Scorecard, a resource for in-depth product reviews based on exclusive hands-on testing, contributor to Information Week, and the author of several books including: Successful Business Intelligence: Unlock the Value of BI & Big Data and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0: The Complete Reference. She served as The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) faculty member for more than a decade. Prior to founding BI Scorecard, Howson was a manager at Deloitte & Touche and a global BI standards leader for Dow Chemical. She has an MBA from Rice University. Great episode with Cindi, enjoy ! Cindi's Twitter @BIScorecard Thoughspot Data Chief Blog https://www.thoughtspot.com/blog/data-chief Cindi's Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/biscorecard/