Ep500: Myra Khanna | Founder & CEO, Sama

Andy is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Bill.com (NYSE: BILL), which he helped scale to a successful IPO. Previously he founded and sold Caring.com, the nation’s leading online destination for those caring for aging loved ones. Andy grew the company to a profitable business with a team of 150 people. He held various sales and marketing leadership positions at SuccessFactors, Intuit, Instill, Peapod and SC Johnson Wax, and earned an MBA in marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

31 Joulu 202023min

Jordan is an investor, military veteran, and author from Los Angeles, California. After college, Jordan spent five years in the US Marine Corps as an infantry officer, serving two combat tours overseas in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Currently, he is a Director and the Head of Talent at Schmidt Futures, a new company founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. He holds degrees from Yale Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Princeton University.

31 Joulu 202024min

Dr. Yael Benvenisti is the CEO of Mediterranean Towers Ventures, the first and only fund investing exclusively in technologies for aging well. She is the chairperson of technologies for aging well group in the society of electrical and electronics engineering in Israel and represents Aging2.0, an international organization dealing with technology and aging. She was selected in 2019 and 2020 as one of Israel’s top influencers on the longevity spaces.

31 Joulu 202021min

Chana Kanzen is the CEO of JI (Jewish Interactive) - a global non profit that delivers online education to over 300,000 kids in over 100 countries. Passionate about improving the quality of education, Chana manges a global team in 4 continents, an international board and has initiated projects being used across the world. Chana regularly lectures and has spoken at Oxford University, Google HQ London /Tel Aviv, Apple HQ NY/London and regularly writes educational features in the Jewish press.

31 Joulu 202022min

Alon Girmonsky is a serial entrepreneur, a passionate software engineer and the CEO and Co-founder of UP9, a new startup in the field of microservice software reliability. Alon has spent over a decade building developer products and companies. Alon’s previous company, BlazeMeter was acquired by CA technologies, where Alon served as Vice President and Business Unit Executive until the acquisition of CA technologies itself by Broadcom.

31 Joulu 202023min

Dennis is a noted high-technology entrepreneur, executive, and board director.  He has founded/co-founded over a dozen different companies, taken some public, been a CEO of both public and private companies, a venture capitalist, a consultant, and a professional board member – 67 fiduciary corporate boards, including ten public companies. Mr. Cagan’s book The Board of Directors of a Private Enterprise, released in 2017, is the authoritative perspective on the widest range of private company governance issues.

31 Joulu 202025min

Alon is a director at Facebook AI and previously held positions at Google, CEO of Megagon Labs, and professor of computer science at the University of Washington. He is the founder of two companies, Nimble Technology and Transformic Inc., the latter of which was acquired by Google in 2005. He is the author of the book "The Infinite Emotions of Coffee" and co-author of "Principles of Data Integration". Alon is an ACM Fellow, and received the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award.

31 Joulu 202022min

Ilan is the Vice President of Enterprise Product at Slack. In this role, Ilan leads product strategy, direction and delivery for Slack for large and regulated companies. Ilan brings over 20 years of experience in building collaboration solutions for the enterprise where there are specific requirements within administration, security, compliance and scale. Prior to Slack Ilan was an early leader in the cloud transformation at SAP launching both social collaboration and cloud analytics solutions.

31 Joulu 202022min