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The Digital Executive

by Coruzant Technologies

Best 10-minute, daily tech podcast on emerging technologies, hundreds of Silicon Valley CEOs, Influencers and Celebrities. Hosted by technology executive and creator of Coruzant Technologies.

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  1. Shalima Bhalla: AI That Puts Customers First | Ep 1332

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas speaks with Shalima Bhalla, a global customer experience and AI executive, about how generative and agentic AI are transforming customer service. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in technology and enterprise...

  2. Mike Milan: Profitable on Paper, Broke in the Bank | Ep 1331

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas speaks with Mike Milan, founder of ClearPath to Cash, about why profitable businesses can still run out of money and how better cash flow management can prevent failure. Known as “Cash Flow Mike,” Mike shares how his own…

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  3. Beau Correll: AI, Advocacy, and the Future of Law | Ep 1330

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Beau Correll, founder of Correll Law Firm, to explore his journey from a solo attorney in Winchester, Virginia, to leading a prominent personal injury practice. Beau shares how his experience as a prosecutor,...

  4. Frank J. Russo: Florida First: People Over Profits | Ep 1329

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas speaks with Frank J. Russo, entrepreneur, insurance executive, real estate developer, and independent candidate for governor of Florida. Drawing on more than 40 years of business leadership, Frank shares his vision for putting...

  5. David Cash: Web3 Beyond NFTs | Ep 1328

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with David Cash, founder of CASH Labs, to explore the rapid evolution of Web3, NFTs, the metaverse, and emerging technology. David shares how the pandemic led him from entertainment and media into the world of NFTs…

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  6. Max Anderson: The Future of Creator Discovery | Ep 1327

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Max Anderson, owner and CEO of OnlyFinder, to pull back the curtain on the surprisingly sophisticated data and search infrastructure powering creator discovery in one of the internet's fastest-growing economies.…

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  7. Vikul Gupta on AI Quality: The New Trust Gate | Ep 1326

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Vikul Gupta, CTO of Quality AI, to explore how AI is transforming quality engineering and why trust will be critical to moving AI from pilot projects into production. Vikul shares his journey from DevOps and...

  8. Jesse Tayler: He Invented the App Store. Now He's Reinventing Trust. | Ep 1325

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Jesse Tayler, the Silicon Valley pioneer who invented the world's first App Store and personally demoed it to Steve Jobs in 1993, to explore why the man who helped build the modern internet is now dedicating the...

  9. Daniel Ishag: Who's Paying Your AI Agent's Bills? | Ep 1324

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Daniel Ishag, Chief Commercial Officer at Bakkt, to explore why the financial infrastructure the world runs on was never designed for the speed, availability, or autonomy that the agentic AI era demands — and what…

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  10. Mike Lucas: The Science of Staying Active Longer | Ep 1323

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, Brian Thomas sits down with Mike Lucas, co-founder of North Performance, to explore the growing world of performance longevity. Mike shares how decades of surfing, snowboarding, injuries, and recovery led him to build a science-backed wellness…

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  11. Mike Link: AI That Detects Falls Before They Happen | Ep 1322

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Mike Link, Chief Operating Officer at KamiVision, to explore how computer vision and AI are quietly transforming the way seniors are protected — not just in care facilities, but at home. Mike opens with a career…

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  12. Jason Hishmeh: AI Without Security Is Just a Faster Way to Fail | Ep 1321

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Jason Hishmeh, co-founder of Variance and Aequit, to explore what it actually looks like to deploy AI inside a business responsibly — with security and compliance built in from the start rather than added as an...

  13. Luis Derechin: Only 1 in 4 Offshore Hires Succeeds. Here's Why. | Ep 1320

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Luis Derechin, founder and CEO of Nir-Yu and author of The Offshore Team Death Trap, to break down why international hiring fails so consistently — and what it actually takes to get it right. Luis opens with the...

  14. Vanessa Slowey: If You Need It, You Should Be Able to Get It | Ep 1319

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Vanessa Slowey, President and CEO of TelyRx, to explore what happens when a lifetime of lessons about access, infrastructure, and trust finally converge in one mission. Vanessa opens with a story that begins above…

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  15. Justin & Travis Maderia: Two Brothers vs. the Seafood Mafia | Ep 1318

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Justin and Travis Maderia, fourth-generation lobstermen and co-founders of Lobster Boys, for a conversation about resilience, integrity, and what it actually takes to fight a broken food system from the bottom up....

  16. Tetiana Aleksandrova: No Surgery, No Keyboard — Just Your Brain | Ep 1317

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Tatiana Aleksandrova, co-founder and CEO of Subsense, to explore one of the most ambitious bets in deep tech — a non-surgical brain-computer interface that could eventually allow humans to communicate directly with...

  17. Jerry Zhang: Your AI Agents Are Silently Failing. Here's How to Fix That. | Ep 1316

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Jerry Zhang, co-founder of Lemma, to explore one of the most underappreciated problems in enterprise AI deployment — agents that appear to work but silently degrade the moment they hit real-world production. Jerry...

  18. Shenbo Xu: Your AI Is Confident. That Doesn't Mean It's Right | Ep 1315

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Shenbo Xu, MIT PhD and co-founder of Kapnova, to make a distinction that most business leaders have heard but rarely internalized — and that costs companies millions when they get it wrong. Shenbo opens by tracing...

  19. Katrina Purcell: Great Strategy Means Nothing Without Execution | Ep 1314

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Katrina Purcell, growth operations consultant and former chief of staff, to explore the messy, often overlooked work that actually makes scaling companies succeed. Katrina opens with a career that wound through...

  20. Adam J. Schwartz: Trust AI, But Verify Everything | Ep 1313

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Adam J. Schwartz, founder and CEO of DocumentReview.law, to explore what happens when a practicing attorney gets frustrated enough with existing tools to teach himself JavaScript and build a better one. Adam opens...

  21. Aidan McCarty: The Signup Form Is Dying. Here's What Replaces It. | Ep 1312

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Aidan McCarty, co-founder and co-CEO of Verified, to make the case that the way we prove who we are on the internet is about to look as dated as the fax machine — and that a phone number is the identity primitive...

  22. Jen Grogono: Every Company Is Becoming a Media Company | Ep 1311

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Jen Grogono, founder and CEO of uStudio, to explore why the future of enterprise training and internal communications looks a lot more like Spotify than a company intranet. Jen opens with the founding story of ON...

  23. Kevin Pickhardt: Your Printer Is a Security Hole | Ep 1310

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Kevin Pickhardt, Executive Chairman of Pharos Systems International, to make the case that one of the most overlooked vulnerabilities in enterprise IT is sitting right there in the corner of every office floor —…

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  24. Shannon Flanagan: Your Soft Skills Are Now Your Superpower | Ep 1309

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Shannon Flanagan, founder and CEO of Retail Women in Tech, to make a case that the most important thing missing from most AI transformation efforts isn't better technology — it's the right people in the room.…

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  25. Allen Dine: ER-Level Care, Delivered to Your Front Door | Ep 1308

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Allen Dine, Chief Business Officer at Care2You, to explore what it actually takes to deliver emergency and hospital-level care inside someone's home — and how AI is making that possible at scale across one of the...

  26. Furkat Kasimov: Don't Copy Success. Learn From Failure Instead. | Ep 1307

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Furkat Kasimov, London-based entrepreneur, angel investor, and author, to explore what it takes to build and invest wisely in the AI era — before the crowd figures it out. Furkat opens with a origin story that...

  27. Edwin Miranda on Business Singularity: Where Human Judgment and AI Become One | Ep 1306

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Edwin Miranda, founder of Konsultora, to explore what it actually means to build an organization for the AI era — not just one with more tools, but one with less distance between a signal, a decision, and an…

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  28. Antonio Mallia: AI Agents Need a Different Kind of Search | Ep 1305

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Antonio Mallia, founder and CEO of Seltz.ai, to explore one of the most overlooked infrastructure questions in the AI era: what happens to web search when the user is no longer a human? Antonio opens with a career...

  29. Harvey Liu: The Exchange Built by Traders, for Traders | Ep 1304

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Harvey Liu, CEO of LevX Exchange, to explore what happens when traders stop using exchanges and start building their own. Harvey opens with his origin story — one of the first Bitcoin investors in China in 2013,...

  30. Michael Ashoori: You Have More Immigration Options Than You Think | Ep 1303

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Michael Ashoori, founder and president of Ashoori Law, to cut through the confusion that surrounds U.S. immigration for entrepreneurs, investors, and skilled professionals. Michael opens with the personal…

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  31. Tarek Saab: Your Gold ETF's Metal Isn't in America | Ep 1302

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Tarek Saab, CEO of Texas Precious Metals, to explore why where your gold sits matters more than most investors have ever stopped to consider — and what it took to build the infrastructure to do something about it....

  32. Sahil Aggarwal: Sellers Sell Less Than You Think. | Ep 1301

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Sahil Aggarwal, founder of Von, to make a blunt case that the go-to-market function has been left behind while every other part of the business got transformed by AI — and that the window to fix it is now. Sahil...

  33. Gary S. Michel: The CEO Case for Radical Simplicity | Ep 1300

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Gary S. Michel, former Chairman and CEO of JELD-WEN and author of Decomplify, to explore why the most dangerous thing a leader can do is mistake busyness for progress. Gary opens by tracing his path from mechanical...

  34. Christopher Sprague: Leadership Dev Is Broken. AI Can Fix It. | Ep 1299

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Dr. Christopher Sprague, CEO and co-founder of Enluma Leadership Group, to make the case that one of the most valuable investments a company can make has been locked behind a velvet rope for decades. Chris opens…

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  35. Pedro Andrade: I'm in the Contact Center Industry to Reinvent the Contact Center | Ep 1298

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Pedro Andrade, VP of AI at Talkdesk, to challenge everything the industry thinks it knows about AI in the contact center. Pedro opens by drawing a straight line from the dot-com boom to today's AI wave — both...

  36. Mohan Gulatin: AI Is Reinventing the Neighborhood Pharmacy | Ep 1297

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Mohan Gulati, CEO and co-founder of Thinkrr.ai, to explore how voice AI is quietly transforming one of healthcare's most overlooked touchpoints — the independent pharmacy. Mohan opens with the moment that pushed…

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  37. Peter Carnochan: Inside the Minds of Silicon Valley's Leaders | Ep 1296

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Dr. Peter Carnochan, psychologist, psychoanalyst, executive coach, and author, to explore what happens when three decades of deep clinical work meets the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley leadership. Peter opens…

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  38. Allie Kline: Who's Responsible for Your AI Agent? | Ep 1295

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Allie Kline, interim CEO of Innovation Labs at Identity Digital, to tackle one of the most urgent and overlooked problems in the AI era: accountability. Allie opens by drawing a through line across her career —…

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  39. Rory Blundell: Who's Governing Your AI Agents? Probably No One. | Ep 1294

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Rory Blundell, CEO of Gravitee, to explore why the infrastructure built for the API economy is fundamentally unprepared for the agentic era — and what it will take to fix that before the risks outpace the rewards....

  40. Mandi Bateman: Your Genome Is the Blueprint | Ep 1293

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Mandi Bateman, CEO and co-founder of Profile Health, to explore what happens when whole genome sequencing, longitudinal patient data, and clinical intelligence come together to give physicians a complete picture of...

  41. Alfredo González Briseño on The Missing Ingredient in AI Regulation | Ep 1292

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Alfredo González Briseño, policy innovator, author, and founder of fAIrly Simple, to explore why the biggest gap in AI governance isn't what governments are regulating — it's how they're doing it. Alfredo opens by...

  42. Jason Allan Scott: Revenue Is Vanity, Freedom Is Sanity | Ep 1291

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Jason Allan Scott, serial entrepreneur, nine-time exit veteran, and founder of the Soul Method, for a masterclass in building businesses that create freedom instead of obligation. Jason opens with two defining...

  43. Dr. Chirag Patel on The Future of Elite Athletic Performance | Ep 1290

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Dr. Chirag Patel, physician, founder, and ESPN injury analyst, to explore what happens when clinical precision meets elite sports, investment strategy, and the drive to democratize access to world-class care.…

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  44. Brian Trzupek on The Race to Secure the AI-Driven Enterprise | Ep 1289

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Brian Trzupek, Senior Vice President of Product at DigiCert, to explore what it means to build digital trust in a world where AI agents are multiplying faster than anyone can track them. Brian opens with a career…

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  45. Moody Abdul: The Admin Is Killing Therapy. AI Is the Fix. | Ep 1288

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Moody Abdul, co-founder and CEO of Klarify, to explore how a deeply personal journey through therapy — and a family shaped by the Lebanese Civil War — became the foundation for a company built to give mental health...

  46. Angie Lillie: Compliance Is Not the Enemy of Innovation | Ep 1287

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Angie Lillie, Chief Compliance Officer at Mentavi Health, to explore what it actually takes to build trust in a digital-first mental health company operating across all 50 states. Angie opens by reframing what...

  47. Itai Green: Why Every Company Is One Startup Away From Disruption | Ep 1286

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Itai Green, global innovation strategist and author of Innovation or Elimination, to make the case that in today's AI-accelerated world, innovation is no longer a competitive advantage — it's a survival…

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  48. Joe Ochal From Lab Coat to Chimney Sweep: How Science Is Reinventing a Blue-Collar Industry | Ep 1285

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Joe Ochal, founder and CEO of The Chimney Scientist, to explore how a microbiology graduate turned a part-time chimney cleaning gig into one of the fastest-growing home services companies in the United States. Joe...

  49. Ashwin Rao on Half the AI, Half the Answer: Why LLMs Can't Do It Alone | Ep 1284

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Dr. Ashwin Rao, Executive Vice President of Next Gen AI at o9 Solutions, to explore why large language models alone are not enough to power the autonomous enterprise — and what it will actually take to get there....

  50. Mitchell Amador on Web3 Is at War: Inside the Fight to Secure the On-Chain Economy | Ep 1283

    In this episode of The Digital Executive Podcast, host Brian Thomas sits down with Mitchell Amador, founder and CEO of Immunefi, to pull back the curtain on the escalating cybersecurity battle playing out across the blockchain ecosystem. Mitchell explains how founding Immunefi in 2020 was less...

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