Ep961: Steven Gerbsman | Managing Principal, Gerbsman Partners
Steven R. Gerbsman is a nationally recognized Crisis/Turnaround CEO/Restructuring Professional and Private Investment Banker who has been involved in maximizing enterprise value, stakeholder and shareholder value in a broad variety of industries. He has worked with a wide spectrum of senior and junior lenders, bondholder groups, venture capital and private equity sources, private investors and institutional groups. He has acted in the capacity of Crisis/Turnaround CEO, Chief Restructuring Officer, Crisis Consultant, Private Investment Banker, Examiner for the Office of the United States Trustee, a member of the Board of Directors of various companies and Advisor to stakeholder groups.
30 Marras 202222min
Ep960: Bryan Clayton | CEO and cofounder, GreenPal
Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013
30 Marras 202221min
Ep959: John Nieuwenburg | Founder, W5 Business Coaching
John Nieuwenburg has been a business coach since 2004. He has helped over 320 small business owners increase profit, remove the stress and chaos from their businesses and get their lives back. Before becoming a business coach, John was president of BC Liquor Stores which currently does over 3 billion dollars in sales annually with a headcount of 4,000 people. In 2019, MacKay CEO Forums awarded John with Canada's CEO Trusted Advisor Award in the Small Business category.
29 Marras 202218min
Ep958: Helen Gu | Founder and CEO, InsightFinder
Dr. Helen Gu, Ph.D. has made it her life’s work to create unsupervised machine learning to detect anomalies in data in valuable ways. Based on more than 15 years of Helen’s academic research and findings, Helen created InsightFinder, a tool that can help predict and prevent IT incidents based on algorithms that can determine an anomaly score and predict the future impact on a company’s infrastructure. The platform also diagnoses the root cause of each system issue and provides automated self-healing capabilities to minimize the impact of service outages. In addition to being the founder/CEO of InsightFinder, Helen is also a computer science professor at the University of North Carolina, and worked at IBM T. J. Watson research center, where she worked on the IBM stream processing system called System S. It later became IBM's InfoSphere Stream product.
28 Marras 202222min
Ep957: Madhav Nair | Senior Vice President Of Engineering, ZoomInfo
A passionate and empathetic leader, Madhav Nair is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at ZoomInfo, a leading go-to-market intelligence platform designed to drive a brand’s sales, marketing, and recruiting initiatives seamlessly and profitably. In his role, Madhav is responsible for leading engineering for all applications and data services, development, quality, and delivery of ZoomInfo’s software products.
28 Marras 202222min
Ep956: Yishai Mishor | Founder & CEO, Meat.The End Inc.
Dr. Yishai Mishor is MTE's founder. Prior to MTE, Yishai was founder and CEO of Ein Hamishpat, a legal-tech start-up. His 20-year career spans law, business, academia and politics, including serving as Chief of Staff to the President of Israel. Yishai holds a PhD in Law from the University of Oxford and was a professor at Oxford.
25 Marras 202222min
Ep955: Ariel Geifman | Chief Revenue Officer, Dealtale
Ariel Geifman is a co-founder and CRO of Dealtaele, the Revenue Science company. Ariel was the CEO of Dealtale from founding until the acquisition by Vianai at the beginning of 2022. Ariel is an avid eneprenour and an expert in tech go to market.
24 Marras 202221min
Ep954: Ryan Larson | Owner and Investment Advisor, FirstLine Financial
Ryan Larson is the founder and CEO of Scottsdale-based FirstLine Financial, LLC. His job as a firefighter gave him a sense of purpose and a lifelong desire to make the world safer. In his new business book, Ladder to Leader: My Journey from Failure to Fire to Financial Freedom (Calling Card Books, May 2022), Ryan describes his journey from a troubled youth to a successful founder and CEO, and the life and business lessons he learned along the way. Ryan's mom pushed him to join the Fire Department Explorer Program, where the entrance exam changed his mentality and gave him confidence.
23 Marras 202222min
