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Today is Sunday May 12, 2024 and every year in the US the second Sunday of May is Mothers Day. On this bonus episode I asked people two questions 1) what makes their moms amazing and remarkable and 2) what are some of the biggest lessons you learned from her? These are their answers.
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ELIZABETH’S BIO
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In between immigrating from Ethiopia to America as a three-month old to running one of the largest healthcare systems in the country, a lot happens. In Dr. Wako’s case: she was a nurse who became a doctor who ended up being chief medical officer of a hospital campus, then running two as chief executive, and is now CEO & President of an entire system, Swedish Providence. If that is not enough, somehow while working full time as a doctor and hospital administrator and being a mom to four young children, she obtained an MBA. She is remarkably at the top of her game.
As of the end of 2023, Swedish encompasses five hospital campuses, over 200 primary care and specialty clinics, 3700 physicians, 231,440 ER visits, just under 1 million outpatient visits, and almost $3 billion in revenue. With a career spanning three decades, Dr. Wako’s path in medicine began at the bedside, as a registered nurse caring for psychiatric patients. Seeking a broader role on the care team, she went on to medical school in Utah and then to the University of Washington where she completed a residency in anesthesiology and a fellowship in perioperative medicine. Her past roles include chief medical officer and chief operating officer for Swedish’s First Hill campus, and chief executive officer for Swedish’s First Hill and Cherry Hill campuses.
Elizabeth holds an associates of arts (AA) in nursing from Walla Walla Community College, a BS from University of Washington, an MD from University of Utah, and an Executive MBA at the University of Washington. She is as accomplished as she is quintessentially human and we can all learn from her, I certainly have. We talk about healthcare, science, communities, AI, capital investment, biases, what drives her, and the future of care in the United States.
ELIZABETH RELATED LINKS
Appointment as CEO
The Future of Medicine and Telehealth - w/ T-Mobile
On the $1.3 billion project in Seattle
A conversation with Dr. Wako
Partnership with Seattle Sounders - Communities
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NAVNEET’S BIO
Navneet Govil has come a very long way. He was born and raised in Zambia with a remarkable trajectory culminating in his current role: Executive Managing Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Softbank Investment Advisers and its Softbank Vision Funds collectively managing the largest venture capital fund(s) in the world, well over $100 billion. In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about venture capital, entrepreneurship, capital markets, IPOs, innovation, leadership, and of course→ AI.
Navneet is Member of the Executive Committee (one of three) that leads the SoftBank Vision Funds, LatAm Funds and SoftBank Group International and is Member of Investment Committee. He oversees the firm’s operations, legal, compliance, finance, marketing, communications, valuations, risk, technology, portfolio monitoring, and human resources teams.He joined Softbank eight years ago and has been instrumental in deploying the fund’s capital, and more importantly, returning it to limited partners including via dozens of IPOs and other exits.
Prior to joining SoftBank, Navneet held senior corporate officer roles for several publicly traded multinational corporations. Most recently as SVP of Finance at CA Technologies, preceded by positions at Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Pfizer, and Fortistar Capital. Naneet earned an MBA and a Master's degree in engineering from Cornell University where he was awarded a merit-based Knight Fellowship and an engineering fellowship.
He currently serves on the boards of ElevateBio and Ridge Lane Partners.
Disclaimer: I served on a Softbank affiliated public company board of directors with Navneet and our firms are common investors in a handful of companies. Our episode is informational only and listeners should not construe anything discussed or related materials as investment, financial, or other advice.
NAVNEET RELATED LINKS
SVF Profile
Softbank Group (SFTBY) - Earnings Call
On Tech & AI - Fortune
CFO Evolution - Forbes
Softbank Latin America
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CHRISTY’S BIO
This talk is a master class on the media & entertainment world and the disruptive forces changing it from someone who has been a media executive, trailblazing entrepreneur and Hollywood super-agent. Christy Haubegger most recently served as EVP of Communications and Chief Inclusion Officer for WarnerMedia leading an organization of 450 executives, spanning Communications, Corporate Marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility. She oversaw all corporate communications and marketing for WarnerMedia as well as Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, CNN, TBS, and TNT. Prior to WarnerMedia, she spent 15 years as an Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency, Creative Artists Agency (CAA) where she also served on the Operations Committee. At CAA, she worked closely with clients such as Eva Longoria, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, America Ferrera, among others and led the drive to increase the representation of women and people of color in the content business. USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative estimated that CAA grew the diversity of its roster by more than 1400% in her tenure. She also created CAA Amplify, an invitation-only convening of diverse artists and leaders from entertainment, sports, media, and brands, focused on accelerating the growth, value, and visibility of diversity in business. Amplify guests included Lee Daniels, Daniel Dae Kim, Carmelo Anthony, Hon. Xavier Becerra, Constance Wu, Shonda Rhimes, JJ Abrams, Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, Jon Chu, Ana DuVernay, Valerie Jarrett, Stevie Wonder, Hon. Susan Rice, Hon. Julian Castro, Ana Navarro, among others.
Christy’s first foray into entertainment was in 2003, as a motion picture producer, with credits including the Fox film “Chasing Papi” and Oscar-winner James L. Brooks’ “Spanglish,” starring Adam Sandler. Prior to that, she founded and served as CEO of Latina magazine in 1996 and quickly became the leading media platform for U.S. Hispanic women. A real trailblazer and Latina pioneer, she was the youngest woman to be inducted into the American Advertising Federation & Advertising Hall of Achievement and has been profiled and interviewed by numerous media outlets including CNN, NPR, NBC Nightly News, Elle magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair and the Today Show. Recently, the Hollywood Reporter named her on their list of the Most Powerful Latinos in Hollywood.
Born and raised in Texas, she is the Mexican-American daughter of adoptive parents, received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and her law degree from Stanford Law School. President Obama appointed her to the Commission on White House Fellows. She also served on the board of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine until its sale to Blackstone in 2021 and currently serves on the boards of Hudson Pacific Properties (NYSE: HPP) and Liberty Trip Advisor Holdings (NASDAQ: LTRPA).
CHRISTY RELATED LINKS
Wikipedia
Hudson Pacific - Board Profile
Trip Advisor - Board Profile
IMDB + CAA Speakers
Hispanic Execuctive - Profile
On Sundance - Variety
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FRED’S BIO
Fred Rivera is as accomplished as he is a terrific human being and has had a remarkable career. He is one of the highest ranking (and few) Latinos in the business of American professional sports. He currently serves as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the Seattle Mariners, loves the game, started pitching as a young kid (great curveball), played in college, and deeply knows the economics of sports - and their positive impact on communities across America. We talk about school, multi generational influences, LA Law (the show), community fabric, leadership, and of course, emotional connections to baseball.
His Mariners role was preceded by another big role: Fred served as Managing Partner of Perkins Coie’s Seattle office, one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the United States where he spent about two decades. He started his career in the 1990’s as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and in the early 2000’s he served as Vice President in charge of internal investigations at Fannie Mae.
He serves on the boards of directors of Heritage Bank (NASDAQ: HFWA), Delta Dental of Washington and OAC Services, and ROOT Sports, the Mariners-owned regional sports network. He has been recognized in the U.S. News-Best Lawyers in America and as Director of the Year (2022) by the Puget Sound Business Journal. Fred also serves, or has served, as President of the Latina/o Bar Association of Washington, Regional President of the Hispanic National Bar Association and the boards of Rainier Scholars, Trustee of the King County Bar Association, Board of Directors of the Downtown Seattle Association, ArtsFund, and the United Way of King County, where he was Chairman.
FRED RELATED LINKS
Talking Baseball and More Baseball- KIRO7 News & KING5 News
Heritage Financial Profile
MCCA Profile
Luminaries in Law - Seattle University
Distinguished Alum Award - California State University
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TED’S BIO
If you start doing something at the age of 2, you may get pretty good at it and such is the case with Ted and skiing. A true pioneer with a distinctive, unparalleled, lightning-fast and highly aggressive carving style he perfected playing around with his childhood friends in Park City, where he grew up. Still in his 30’s, Ted retired from skiing a few years ago and is by far one of the best alpine ski racers in the world. He is also a serial entrepreneur having founded Shred Optics (an outdoor winter gear company) and currently as a shareholder of Carv (a hardware/software enabled digital ski coach). His childhood nickname and to this day is “shred” - and he hardcore “carv(es)”.
Ted is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, winning the combined in 2006 (Turin, Italy) and the giant slalom in 2014 (Sochi, Russia), and is a five-time World-Cup champion in giant slalom. He finished his career with 25 victories and 52 podiums in competition. His record puts him among the three greatest giant slalom skiers of all time. His full record and stats here.
He is a household name in the world of winter sports and a life-long skier and ambassador for the sport who is currently an NBC analyst, brand ambassador, content creator, public speaker and business owner. Some of the brands he is or has been affiliated with include Land Rover, Apple, Deer Valley, and GoPro and as his own website puts it: “He's comfortable connecting with people on the slopes and in the boardroom, for Fortune 500 companies… his Olympic and entrepreneurial experiences, as well as his journey of going from a kid at the bottom of the rankings to one of the best skiers in the world, captivate all audiences.”
He certainly did with our host and those who listen to this remarkable human being at the Top Of The Game.
TED RELATED LINKS
Wikipedia + Olympics
Why it’s almost impossible to ski like Ted (Video)
Science Says No One Can Ski Like Ted - Ski Mag
Instagram
Shred Optics + Carve
Vonn + Ligety Chasing Each Other - Powder Mag
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PHILLIS’ BIO
Phyllis Campbell is one of the most prolific leaders in the Pacific Northwest and has had a remarkable five-decade career. She currently serves on the boards of Remitly, SanMar, Air Transport Services Group, Allen Institute and is the Edward Fritzky Chair in Leadership at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business. Until a few years ago, she served as Chairman of the Pacific Northwest Region for JPMorgan Chase, preceded by leading The Seattle Foundation as CEO and served President of U.S.Bank of Washington.
She previously held seats on the boards of Nordstrom, Puget Sound Energy, Safeco, Alaska Airlines, Washington Roundtable and was Chairman of the US-Japan Council. Phillys has received several awards for her corporate and community involvement, including Women Who Make A Difference and Director of the Year from the Northwest Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. She writes and speaks often on topics that include high performing teams, board effectiveness, business strategy, leadership, authenticity and purpose.
Phyllis holds a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University and an MBA from the University of Washington.
PHYLLIS RELATED LINKS
PJC Website
Allen Institute - Profile
Remitly + ATSG - Boards
Career Thoughts
WSU Honor
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JOSE’S BIO
Jose Minaya is CEO of Nuveen, a leading global asset management firm with more than $1 trillion under management. He chairs Nuveen’s Executive Committee, is a member of parent company TIAA’s Executive Committee, and serves as the executive sponsor of the Inclusion and Diversity initiative for TIAA. He previously served as President and CIO of Nuveen and joined TIAA in 2004 after more than 29 years of investment experience at firms including AIG, Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan.
Minaya is on the board of Trustees of Manhattan College, where he earned a bachelor’s in finance, and the board of advisors of the Amos Tuck School of Business MBA Council at Dartmouth, where he earned an MBA. In addition to those, he serves on the boards of multiple companies and charitable organizations, including Moody’s, the National Forest Foundation, the Investment Company Institute, the Investment Committee of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and as chair of the Governing Board of Directors of the Robert Toigo Foundation.
JOSE RELATED LINKS
Nuveen
Dartmouth Alumni Stories
In 90 Seconds on HHM
On hedging inflation - CNBC
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DANTE’S BIO
Dante Disparte’s story starts inside the jungles of Puerto Rico, eventually becoming the first in his family with a formal education. He is the Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy for Circle, a leading global financial technology firm and the issuer of USDC. USDC has supported more than $10 trillion in cumulative transactions on the public internet and a global payment network in more than 190 countries. He is also Executive Vice Chairman of the Diem Association and prior to joining Circle, Dante served as a founding executive of the Diem Association (née Libra backed by Meta fka Facebook), leading public policy, communications, membership, and social impact.
He is a prolific author, entrepreneur, business leader and global risk expert who previously was Chairman of Risk Cooperative, , MD of Clements Worldwide and MD of Land Rover in Africa He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium, helping drive global standards and regulatory harmonization for digital currencies. Dante served as an appointee on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Advisory Council, the United States’ federal emergency response agency.
Dante is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College. He is the co-author of “Global Risk Agility and Decision Making” (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list. Dante is also a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of The Economic Club of Washington, D.C. and the Bretton Woods Committee.
Technical show note: Approximately 10 seconds of roll is missing from the original recording due to technical recording issues.
DANTE RELATED LINKS
Dante Disparte Website + Twitter
Circle
World Economic Forum
Crypto’s Moment - American Banker
Global Risk and Decision Making - Book
On AI - Diplomatic Courier + Others
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HEATHER’S BIO
Heather has a number of interesting endeavors in her portfolio of activities and throughout her career. Equally interesting and unique, especially for a Stanford Law School graduate, is that she was raised in a series of communes in rural Oregon and west coast. Yes, communes. She is Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Flying Fish Partners, a venture firm with investments in generative AI, fintech, energy, automation, robotics, speech, and computer vision companies as well as sustainability, proptech, retail tech, and martech firms.
She was recently appointed as a Trustee of the $160 billion Washington State Investment Board and serves on the boards of Beneficial State Bank (Lead Independent Director and member Audit & Technology Committees), Yesler, Inc., Coldstream Holdings Inc., Greater Seattle Metropolitan Chamber (immediate past Chair), Washington Technology Industry Association (Chair), Technology Alliance, Forterra and as a Regent of the Washington State University. Heather also serves on the executive committee of the Global EIR Coalition, the governing advisory board of the Hawthorn Club, the Connector Board of NCWIT, the advisory board of iInovate and as a mentor at Techstars.
Earlier in her career she served in senior leadership roles at Indix, Summit Power, Atom Entertainment, Getty Images and PhotoDisc and as General Counsel of Getty Images. She received her B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from Reed College and a JD from Stanford University. She holds a Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight from Carnegie Mellon and is an NACD Certified Director.
HEATHER RELATED LINKS
Flying Fish VC - Company
WSIB + WSU - Profiles
PPL + Coldstream Wealth - Profiles
Puget Sound Business Journal - Article
Athena Alliance Podcast - Audio
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XAVIER’S BIO
Xavier Gutierrez is the first Latino President CEO in the National Hockey League, leading the Arizona Coyotes Hockey Club for which he also serves as Alternative Governor. Previously, he served as Managing Director at Clearlake Capital Group, a leading private investment firm that manages over $70 billion in assets, preceded by being President & Chief Investment Officer at Meruelo Group and a professional at Phoenix Realty Group, Latham & Watkins and the NFL. He is also co-founder of Suma Wealth.
He was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, he and his family relocated to San Jose, California when he was a baby. The quintessential American success story and armed with a Jesuit primary and secondary education, Xavier went on to receive degrees from Harvard College and Stanford Law School, and for two decades built a career in business, investment, and finance. He serves or has served on multiple boards and advisory councils including the Board of Directors of Commercial Bank of California, the largest Latino-owned bank in California, the Board of Directors and Investment Committee of the Arizona Community Foundation (ACF), a public charitable organization, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Committee on Small & Emerging Businesses at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.
A remarkable story, and a close friend, Xavier has something to teach us all about the power of hard work, seizing opportunity, grit, resilience and serendipity. He sees “where the puck is going”, enjoy this great conversation.
XAVIER RELATED LINKS
Aspen Profile
Leadership in NHL| Forbes
On taking the Coyotes helm| ABC News
Arizona Community Foundation Profile
From finance to sports| California Biz Journal
Hispanic Executive Profile
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BRAD’S BIO
Brad Gerstner is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and hedge fund manager. He is founder, chairman and CEO of Altimeter Capital, a leading technology investment firm he started during the 2008 financial crisis. Brad and his team are known for fundamental analysis and deep expertise in consumer internet, software and artificial intelligence across the capital formation cycle, a style colloquially known as crossover investing.
The efficient and productive use of capital “knows no buckets”, and Brad is at the forefront of these crossover opportunities across the private, quasi-public and public markets. He has been involved in over 100 IPOs and some of his notable investments include Snowflake, Bytedance (TikTok) Zillow, Uber, Meta (Facebook), Plaid, Okta, Gusto and Zillow among many others.
Brad was born and raised in Indiana and his father’s failed business taught him many lessons early in life. “In life you are either running towards something or away from something” as he puts it. His investing career started while day trading to pay for law school at Indiana University, followed by being appointed to be Deputy Secretary of State of Indiana, the youngest in history. His true calling was in business and attended Harvard to obtain an MBA. Right after graduation he was a founding principal of General Catalyst and worked / co-founded / sold several travel and consumer internet related startups, followed by serving as a portfolio manager at PAR Capital and eventually launching Altimeter.
In 2016, Altimeter was the largest shareholder of United and helped usher changes at the company, including its board. In 2022, Gerstner wrote a now seminal open letter to Mark Zuckerberg stating Meta was losing focus, had too many employees and was losing investor confidence recommending that the company cut expenses by 20%, focus on AI and limit Metaverse spending to $5 billion a year. A few weeks later, Meta effected many of his recommendations and the company’s stock has increased ~4X since.
He has been a regular guest on the All In Podcast and has a podcast (BG2) with co-host and former Benchmark GP Bill Gurley. Brad recently unveiled Invest America, a plan to create a broad and passive basket of stocks representing the American economy for every child in America rooted in the power of capitalism, compound interest and returns. Brad is at the top of his game and his influence is hard to overstate, underpinned by his intellect, vision, capital allocation savvy, curiosity and belief in opportunity for all – no matter where one starts.
I’ve known Brad for 25 years, is a great friend and every time we speak I learn a few things, including this episode - enjoy this remarkable human being.
BRAD RELATED LINKS
Brad’s Twitter
CNBC Report Meta Board & Mark Zuckerberg
Time to Get Fit Letter
On CNBC Squawk Box discussing Invest America
On Delivering Alpha re: AI
BG2’s First Episode on YouTube + Twitter
Profile on Forbes (Midas List 2022)
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YEMI’S BIO
This episode is a master class in emerging markets investing, capital allocation and developing economies by one of the best in the game. He was very early investing capital in two consequential geographies, China in the early 2000’s and Africa a few years later. He is now a London-based Partner & Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at TPG, a leading global investment firm managing $212 billion in assets. He leads investment activities for the firm in Africa and a leader on emerging market investment activities in the technology sector for TPG’s Rise Fund.
Prior to joining TPG in 2015, Yemi founded and was Managing Partner of Adlevo Capital, one of the first venture capital firms focused on early stage technology investments in Africa. Previously, he was a Principal at GGV Capital, a leading Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm and one of the first focused on investments in both the US and China. Yemi started his career as an engineer and held engineering leadership and product management positions at Hewlett Packard and Siebel Systems.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Lagos, a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
YEMI RELATED LINKS
Yemi’s TPG Profile
TPG Rise Fund’s Portfolio
Airtel Africa $200m Deal| TechCrunch
Investing in African Tech Companies| Built Tough Pod
Africa’s Booming Tech Sector| Bloomberg
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DIANKHA’S BIO
Diankha Linear is one of the few women in America, let alone African American Women, to both lead a VC-backed company and raise tens of millions of growth capital for it. But what led her here started in a Seattle community center followed by an incredible career which includes 16 years of United States Army service, part of it, as a Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps - Captain (Airborne). Diankha currently serves as the President & Chief Executive Officer at Community.com, preceded by being the company’s COO. Prior to that she worked as General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at Convoy, Inc. She also serves on the board of, incoming Chairwoman, Swedish Health Services, one of the largest community focused healthcare provider systems in the country. On February 2024 she was appointed to the board of directors of Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN).
Before her leadership, tech and entrepreneurial journey she served as the Senior Director in the Legal Department at Nordstrom, Director in the Legal Department, at Expeditors, Senior Attorney at the U.S. Department of Education, Senior Associate in General Commercial Litigation at Cairncross & Hempelmann, and as JAG in the US Army Reserve. Diankha’s foundational years were spent as a lawyer focused on commercial litigation, employment, and antitrust at Perkins Coie LLP. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Military Science from the University of Washington and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
DIANKHA RELATED LINKS
From Lawyer To Leader
Community (company website)
Enterprises Connecting with Consumers (video)
Becoming COO
Joining Swedish’s Board (soon to be Chair)
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MANNY’S BIO
Manuel D. Medina (Manny) is a remarkable human being - from an idyllic early childhood in Cuba to seeking asylum in the USA to an amazing success, and uniquely American story. He is a highly successful entrepreneur and investor with many decades of leadership experience in the IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, software and data analytics sectors. He is Executive Chairman of Cyxtera, the second company he’s taken public (NASDAQ: CYXT) subsequently and recently acquired by Evoque. Remarkably this is not his first rodeo. He saw very early that the internet would require significant infrastructure and “plumbing”. He was Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Terremark, a publicly traded company on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: TMRK) which was eventually acquired by Verizon for an enterprise value of $2 billion. Terremark built and operated the Network Access Point of the Americas, one of the major communications hub in the world and was a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services for Fortune 500 enterprises and federal government agencies. He is also Founder and Managing Partner of Medina Capital, an investment firm investing in early stage innovative companies. Manny is an integral figure in Miami’s economy and vibrant innovation ecosystem at large. He founded and is chairman of the board of eMerge Americas, the premier B2B technology event connecting the U.S., Latin America and Europe (the “SXSW of Miami”). Through his leadership, eMerge Americas has helped establish Miami as the hub for the technology industry in the Americas and has had a multi billion dollar economic impact on the State of Florida supporting thousands of jobs.He is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from technology trends and global business to entrepreneurship and has served as either a keynote speaker or panelist at large investor conferences and tradeshows, as well as NBC News, CNBC, Bloomberg TV and Fox Business. Manny was born in Matanzas, Cuba and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1965 at 13 years of age. with his family. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University and began his career as a certified public accountant at Price Waterhouse.MANNY RELATED LINKSManny’s Wikipedia
Taking Cyxtera public
Cyxtera Profile
eMerge Americas
Miami as a tech hub
Verizon buys Terremark
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TOM’S BIO
One week ago, Thomas Monahan was announced as the new CEO of Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSII), one of the preeminent global executive search, leadership development, and management consulting firms. Previously, Tom served as CEO and President of DeVry University until Oct 2023 and remains the organization's Vice Chairman. Prior to that, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Corporate Executive Board (NYSE: CEB), now Gartner, which acquired CEB for $2.6 billion. He also served as Chairman of ProKarma and is currently a board member of Transunion (NYSE: TRU). Early in his career he was a consultant at Deloitte and Andersen Consulting. Tom’s career has been spent engaging, leading and governing organizations that leverage innovative technology, robust data, and exceptional people to inflect business performance, improve individual lives, and produce healthy and just societies. He is also Managing Partner of Norton Street and served on the boards of Winsight, Workforce Logiq, Convergys.
I had the pleasure of serving with Tom on the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy and is a good friend. He is, by far, one of the most thoughtful and strategic business people I have come across and his professional journey started working in the family business, a carnival. This episode’s segments about leadership and the future of higher education are, respectively, terrific distillations of the essence of world-class leadership and the dynamics affecting the higher-education sector.
The episode was recorded before his role at Heidrick & Struggles was announced.
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Tom’s Wikipedia
Heidrick & Struggles CEO Announcement
CEO Rountable
Taking the helm at DeVry
On Enterprise Data
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FAYE’S BIO
Faye owns and runs the best bar and restaurant in the United States, Double Chicken Please, located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. But the improbable and head spinning story that culminated in what is now one of the hottest places to eat and drink in America is truly the stuff of legend. An amazing woman, Faye got into the business as a teenager, first serving drinks in a pub in Taipei, followed by a rockstar flair bartender stint, eventually becoming one of the most inventive cocktail makers in Shanghai and now in America’s largest city.
She moved to America with nothing but a visa, an idea and a dream which drained her savings over five years, finally opening her restaurant in the middle of Covid. While figuring out the maze of real estate, licenses and all the rest she and her partner embarked on an R&D trip in a Volkswagen van around the country logging thousands of miles to test their concoctions on real people - as she puts it “finding and learning the American palette”.
From her Cold Pizza drink (a margherita margarita) to her Waldorf Salad drink to her NY Beet Salad and Japanese Cold Noodle drinks, Faye is a trailblazer that has won many awards for her creations and now showcases them in the biggest stage of them all. Faye’s tenacity, constant pivoting, pursuit of excellence, resilience, finding product market fit and superb execution of an idea in the most difficult of circumstances to turn it into the best bar in the most competitive market in the world is truly remarkable. Her entrepreneurship combined with her skill, craft and creativity put her at the very top of the game.
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The Best Bar in North America| Condé Nast
The duo behind America’s hottest bar| CBS Mornings
How Double Chicken Please became the best| Eater
Double Chicken Please| website
The story| The World’s 50 Best
From Asia to NYC| Drink Magazine
Mixologist Faye Chen on Turning Food intro Drinks| Radii
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OSCAR’S BIO
Oscar is the former Executive Chairman & CEO of United Airlines Holdings. He led the airline’s stunning turnaround which is remarkable on its own, but what makes his story so singular is that 37 days after taking the helm at the company he suffered a massive heart attack that eventually led to a heart transplant. Perseverance, grit, dedication, motivation, and humanity are some words that describe this leader.
Prior to UAL, Oscar served as President and COO of CSX Corporation, a railroad and intermodal transportation services company. He began his career holding various financial positions at PepsiCo and Coca Cola, followed by being CFO at US West through its merger with Qwest followed by being CFO of AT&T’s consumer services division.
His path in the corporate world is capped by currently serving on the boards of directors of Salesforce, CBRE Group, Inc., Univision Holdings, Inc. Archer Aviation Inc, and Fidelity’s Equity & High Income Fund.
Oscar is the oldest of ten children in a Mexican-American family from Southern California and was the first in his family to graduate from college, earning a BS in business from the University of Southern California and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
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Oscar’s Wikipedia
Salesforce Board
American Heart Association
Turnaround Time (Book)
Personal Website
Discussing Holiday Travel on CNBC
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This is a very interesting talk about capitalism and its evolution from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman to what he terms “patriotic capitalism”.
ROY’S BIO
Roy Swan leads the Ford Foundation’s Mission Investments team, investing $1 billion of the endowment in opportunities that generate financial and social returns in the United States and the Global South. Roy also oversees Ford’s program-related investments and its impact investing grants program, dedicated to expanding and strengthening the impact investing field.
Previously, Roy served as managing director and co-head of Global Sustainable Finance at Morgan Stanley, which committed over $13 billion in community development transactions and also served as president and chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley Trust, and as CEO of Morgan Stanley Impact SBIC. Before Morgan Stanley, Roy was the founding chief investment officer of New York City’s Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), a federal initiative designed to bring new resources to distressed urban communities that played a key role in Harlem’s economic rebirth. He also served as CFO at Carver Bancorp, a Harlem-based publicly traded financial institution and the nation’s largest African-American managed bank. Earlier in his career, Roy worked at Skadden Arps, First Boston, JPMorgan, and Time Warner.
He serves on the boards of Dalton School, Parnassus Funds and Varo Money. Roy holds a bachelors from Princeton and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review.
“In order to have a healthy economy, you need to mind all stakeholders”
“Social responsibility is a misnomer, it’s [paradoxically] culture-driven value creation corporate self-interest”
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Ford Foundation
Princeton’s Thrive
Forbes Finance Council
Pensions & Investments OpEd
Discussing ESG on CNBC
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HAPPY 2024 TO ALL!
Thank you for your support, listening and all the feedback. This is a super short bonus drop to kickoff 2024. Our first episode this year (#26) will be released on January 10th.
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