Uncharted Podcast

This week's episode featuring Nicole Allen is brought to you by Oracle NetSuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Nicole learned early on that the best path isn't always linear. From college athlete to corp comms in the NBA, Nicole threw her career for a loop when she answered a Craigslist ad for a job at a B2B tech PR agency in San Francisco. From there, she's only looked up and never back, defining a goal-oriented growth path for herself at LEWIS Global Communications where she now holds a leadership role as VP of Digital and Head of the SF Office. Nicole is at her best when she's surrounded by people who are smarter than her, and feels fortunate to have fallen into a supportive group of women who continue to push her upwards. Connect with Nicole Allen:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolehyslop/ Connect with Poya Osgouei: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                    Connect with Robby Allen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/      

This week's episode featuring Tara McCann and Sammi Chen from Zendesk is brought to you by Oracle NetSuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Sammi and Tara joined us this week to share their perspective on how companies as well as business leaders in a remote world can support current college graduates as well as recent graduates. Sammi and Tara share what they have seen their company, organizations as well as individuals do to ensure a smooth onboarding of candidates, as well as, ensure they are doing all they can to get them productivity.  Connect with Tara McCann: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taramccann/ Connect with Sammi Chen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammi-chen/ Connect with Poya Osgouei: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                  

This week's episode featuring Rhonda Larson is brought to you by Oracle NetSuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Rhonda's career has taken her from consulting to enterprise to startups and back. She's worked across multiple functions with the majority of her time in sales operations. She loves making things easier for the people around her and measuring the impact of her and her team's work. Currently, she heads up a global SaaS Sales Ops team at LinkedIn where she is thrilled to be part of the company's mission to bring economic opportunity to the world's workforce. Connect with Rhonda Larson:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhondalarson/ Connect with Poya Osgouei: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                    Connect with Robby Allen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/      

This week's episode featuring Niji Sabharwal from Agentsync.io is brought to you by Oracle NetSuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Niji was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and has more than 10 years of work experience at companies like Linkedin & Zenefits managing functions ranging from sales strategy & operations to broker compliance. Niji and his wife, Jennifer Knight founded Agentsync with the mission is to automate the distribution compliance burden by leveraging technology to do the heavy lifting - ultimately creating opportunity and efficiency in an industry ripe for disruption. Niji holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Connect with Niji Sabharwal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akaniji/ Connect with Robby Allen: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/           Connect with Poya Osgouei: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/

This week's episode featuring Peter Ord from GuideCX is brought to you by Oracle Netsuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Peter Ord is the founder and CEO of GuideCX, a client onboarding and implementation platform to engage new customers and deliver value faster. Before founding and scaling GuideCX, Peter was at DealerSocket for 14 years in a wide variety of roles from implementation, training and most recently as the VP of Sales where he helped lead DealerSocket through an acquisition.  Peter is a graduate of Brigham Young University, and currently resides in the beautiful State of Utah.  Connect with Peter Ord:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterord/ Connect with Poya Osgouei: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                    Connect with Robby Allen: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/          

This week's episode featuring Crendal Kear is brought to you by Oracle NetSuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Crendal is a highly-regarded business operations professional with over 20 years of experience in technology sales, support and services operations roles. She currently serves as the Vice President of Global Sales Operations at Exabeam. Prior to Exabeam, she was Vice President of Worldwide Sales Operations at Zscaler, where she built out the sales and support operations that ultimately led to a successful IPO for the company. Before Zscaler, Crendal held various operational roles at organizations including Hewlett Packard, NetApp, Aricent and ArrayComm where she supported organizations experiencing business transformation and hyper growth. Crendal has a B.A. from University of Findlay. Connect with Crendal Kear: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crendal/ Connect with Poya Osgouei: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                    Connect with Robby Allen: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/          

This week's episode featuring  Jan Arendtsz is brought to you by Oracle NetSuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Jan Arendtsz is a veteran of the software industry with more than 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, business development, product development, and customer success. He founded Celigo with the goal of simplifying how companies integrate business applications together for a connected enterprise. He is responsible for overseeing all company operations. Prior to Celigo, Jan was a Director at NetSuite, the leading cloud-based ERP platform, where he launched their integration platform. Prior to that, Jan worked for Cambridge Technology Partners, where he implemented complex business solutions for a multitude of customers ranging from Internet startups to Fortune 500 companies. Jan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Connect with Jan Arendtsz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janarendtsz/ Connect with Poya Osgouei: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                    Connect with Robby Allen: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/          

This week's episode featuring Loretta Jones is brought to you by Oracle Netsuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Loretta is a self proclaimed 'startup junkie.' She loves growing early stage SAAS startups, and has grown companies from $1-2M ARR up to over $20M ARR. Her experience encompasses marketing strategy, communications, demand generation and growth marketing. In many early stage startups, it's not uncommon for Loretta to be the first marketing leader and the only female in a male-dominated engineering culture, so she enjoys bringing different energy and perspective to early stage startups. She's an animal lover (especially dogs!) and uses her vacations as an excuse to get back to nature and swim with humpback whales, whale sharks and manta rays, to name a few. Connect with Loretta: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loretta-jones-2418/ Connect with Poya Osgouei: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                    Connect with Robby Allen: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/                                  

This week's episode featuring  Sid Bharath from Broca is brought to you by Oracle Netsuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Sid is the CEO and Founder of Broca (www.usebroca.com), an AI-software that generate content such as ad copy, blog posts, etc. Previously, Sid ran a consulting business, helping SAAS companies accelerate their growth. He worked with fast-growing startups like Gorgias, ClickUp and many others. Before that, Sid was the VP of Growth at Thinkific, helping them grow from product-market fit to a multi-million dollar company (20X growth) in less than two years. Sid also worked at Lemonstand (acquired by Mailchimp). Connect with Sid: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidbharath/ Connect with Poya Osgouei: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                    Connect with Robby Allen: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/                                  

This week's episode featuring Kass Dawson from Softbank Robotics is brought to you by Oracle Netsuite (Sign up for a personalized product tour at www.netsuite.com/scale) Kass Dawson is the Vice President of Human Resources and Diversity & Inclusion at SoftBank Robotics America (SBRA), as well as the VP, Brand Strategy & Communications. Kass leads SBRA and its partners at the intersection of business strategy, the future of work, and social equality, elevating humanity both through and beyond robotics. Kass also led the SoftBank Group education CSR project for North America which donated robots and software to minority-majority school districts and underserved classrooms to increase access to STREAM careers. Before SoftBank Robotics, Kass worked at Facebook as the Global Head of Marketing for the Automotive vertical, driving the company’s strategic vision to maximize automotive business around the world. Before Facebook, Dawson has held a variety of roles within manufacturing and technology leaders like Mercedes-Benz and Jumpstart Automotive Group. Kass is a graduate of Amherst College. Connect with Kass:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/kass-dawson-7050927/ Connect with Poya Osgouei: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poyaosgouei/                                      Connect with Robby Allen: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbyallen/