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The Executive
by Matt Harbert
Tune in as Matt uncovers the inspiring stories, lessons, and advice on how to make it at the highest level from top executives, entrepreneurs, founders, thought leaders, and investors. Conversations include a wide range of topics and conversations including career advice, industry trends and challenges, failing forward, and incredible stories of perseverance and overcoming the odds especially in the arenas of tech, life sciences, finance, and more.
Episodes
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Electrifying the Skies: Nate Millecam’s Journey to Reinvent Aviation
Aerospace is on the brink of an electronic revolution, and at the forefront is Nate Millecam, Co-Founder & CEO of EP Systems. With a bold vision to electrify aviation and beyond, EP Systems has secured over $100M in funding and partnered with top names to make fully electric aircraft a reality.…
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Navy SEAL Mindset & Tackling Gun Violence
Rob Huberty, former Navy SEAL and Co-Founder & COO of ZeroEyes. Rob shares how his proximity to previous shooting tragedies and military experience led him and his co-founders to create an AI-powered solution that's revolutionizing gun detection and prevention.
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From Airlines to Autonomous Vehicles: Richard Tame, Tech Industry Veteran and CFO
Meet Richard Tame, a seasoned finance executive who is now serving as the CFO of Coeus Institute, an AI data driven analysis company. His journey across various industries and renowned corporations, from British Airways to tech giants like Amazon, Meta, and Lyft, has been marked by a wealth of...
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Serial Entrepreneur & Silent Investor: Jackson Moses, Founder of Silent Ventures
Jackson Moses is a successful serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor. He currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm investing in aerospace, defense, and national security startups including Anduril, Castelion, Chaos, Hadrian,...
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Embracing Ambiguity: Dr. Seth Lederman, CEO & Chairman of Tonix Pharmaceuticals
Dr. Seth Lederman, CEO and Chairman of Tonix Pharmaceuticals, shares insights into his journey from medical practice to pharmaceutical entrepreneurship. From his early days combating the AIDS epidemic to specializing in rheumatology and fibromyalgia research, Dr. Lederman discusses the lessons...
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Behind the Scenes of Private Equity: Jeff Hart Shares his Strategic Approach
Jeff Hart is a partner at AE Industrial Partners, a Private Equity firm with over $6 Billion in AUM that has invested in some of the most exciting aerospace, security, and industrial companies across the country including Firefly Aerospace, Sierra Space, and York Space Systems. Jeff has…
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Building Success Beyond the Hype; Justus Kilian, Space Capital
Justus Kilian, Managing Partner at Space Capital, discusses how to create a culture of excellence, why Elon Musk interviewed the first 1,000 hires at Tesla, and how to find your dream mentor. Space Capital is a venture firm at the forefront of the Tech-Space intersection, boasting a robust...
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Trailblazing Her Own Path In Venture Capital In Space
Meagan Murphy Crawford, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SpaceFund, which has invested in over 20 Aerospace companies including SpaceX, Axiom Space, and Voyager Space. Meagan also co-founded the world’s longest running space business plan competition, and has taught, coached, and advised…
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The Winning Traits of Founders; Andrea Hippeau, Partner at Lerer Hippeau
Andrea Hippeau is a Partner at Lerer Hippeau, an early-stage venture capital fund that has invested in some of the most forward thinking brands - Warby Parker, Allbirds, Cotopaxi, Casper, and Thrive. Andrea shares what traits all the best founders have, what her investor matrix is, how she uses…
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Early Employee to CEO of Public Company: Hadi Chaudhry
Hadi Chaudhry is the CEO & President at CareCloud, a publicly traded healthcare technology company. Hadi was an early employee at CareCloud where he rose the ranks helping take the company public and eventually becoming CEO. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry, and has been at the...
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Matthew Price, Co-Founder & COO of Promontory Therapeutics
Matthew Price, COO of Promontory Therapeutics is an experienced biotech entrepreneur / C-level executive, and the only company co-founder named a 2022 Emerging Pharma Leader by Pharmaceutical Executive. He is responsible for industry collaborations with Pfizer and Merck KGaA, and for Cooperative...
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A Story of Resilience in the Beauty Industry: Shannon Erley, Founder & CEO of Pomp
Shannon Erley, Founder & CEO of Pomp a groundbreaking platform connecting estheticians with their clients through technology in the beauty industry. She shares her journey from frustration with the crowded beauty market to building a resilient company that attracted major investors, including the...
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Driving Innovation in Insurance: Erik Mitisek, Co-Founder & President of Highwing
Erik Mitisek, Co-Founder & President of Highwing, the first open data platform for commercial insurance. Highwing spun out of IMA Financial Group with a $4M seed round led by BRP Group and BrokerTech Ventures. Erik has over 2+ decades of operating as a c-suite executive, and founder of numerous...
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Navigating Challenging Markets and Finding Value: Joanna Arras, Partner of Baird Capital
Joanna Arras joined Baird Capital in 2014, a venture capital investor focused on early- and expansion-stage companies that leverage technology to solve business problems or just make life easier. She is also currently a board member of ChurnZero, Circonus, FullContact, and SourceDay and was...
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Making Leave Not Suck: Jennifer Henderson, CEO & Founder of Tilt
Jennifer Henderson is the Founder and CEO of Tilt, a venture-backed SaaS platform that redefines the employee leave experience. Based on her own experience of leave being a career killer, Jennifer decided to change that narrative and create a platform that allows employees to take the necessary...
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Navigating the Biotech Industry: Insights from Robert Jacks, CEO of Sparrow Therapeutics
Robert Jacks has 20 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry. He has founded or co-founded multiple companies and raised more than $170 million with several successful exits. He is now the President & CEO of Sparrow Pharmaceuticals which is developing targeted therapies for serious...
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Treating Major Neurological Disorders: Dr. Marcelo Bigal, President and CEO of Ventus Therapeutics
Dr. Marcelo Bigal, President and CEO of Ventus Therapeutics, a company that expects to become the leader in the field of using precision medicine to identify subsets of patients with severe chronic neurological conditions. Prior to Ventus, Dr. Marcelo held multiple positions in the industry,...
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Leading in Aerospace: Monica Palko, Chief Legal & Administrative Officer of York Space Systems
Monica Palko, Chief Legal & Administrative Officer of York Space Systems. She discusses how leadership is not a one-size-fits-all approach, how to advance in an organization, and what trait surprised her the most in a great founder. York Space Systems, who design and manufacture space systems, is...
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Kelly Hennig, COO of Stoke Space
Kelly Hennig, Chief Operating Officer of Stoke Space, one of the fastest growing aerospace companies developing reusable rockets to provide the satellite industry with low-cost, on-demand access to and from any orbit. Stoke’s investors include NFX, MaC Ventures, YC, Seven Seven Six Ventures, and...
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From Deep Analytics to Leading Post IPO: Molly Harper, Chief Business Officer of Synlogic
Molly Harper, Chief Business Officer of Synlogic, a biotechnology company that went public in 2021 through a reverse merger with Mirna Therapeutics raising an additional $40M after $100M in venture capital funding. Molly is also a member of the Board of Directors for Catalyst Pharmaceuticals and...
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Navigating an IPO in a Challenging Market: Vlad Vitoc, CEO of MAIA
Vlad Vitoc is the Founder & CEO of MAIA, an immune-oncology company, focused on the development of first-in-class drugs with novel mechanisms of action that are intended to meaningfully improve and extend the lives of people with cancer. Vlad and his team took MAIA public successfully in 2022 in...
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Serial Entrepreneur: Hans Keirstead, Founder & CEO of Aivita
Hans Keirstead is a serial entrepreneur and currently the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Aivita Biomedical, a biotechnology company developing personalized vaccines for the prevention of infectious disease and treatment of cancer. He has now founded four biotechnology companies with successful…
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Scientist, Investment Banker, and now Biotech CEO: Mani Mohindru, CEO of Novasenta
Mani Mohindru, CEO of Novasenta has a non-traditional career path, starting as a scientist studying immune cells in the context of autoimmune diseases. She later worked in investment banking, which exposed her to different therapeutic areas, treatment modalities, and a full view of what a company...
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Attorney to Life Science CEO - Brian Finrow, CEO of Lumen Bioscience
Brian Finrow is the CEO of Lumen Bioscience, where they are reinventing how biologic drugs are made. Dissimilar to a lot of Bioscience CEO’s, Brian comes from the legal industry having graduated from Harvard and spent over 8 years at Cooley. Lumen's patented technology allows them to use the...
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Home Ownership For The Next Generation - Ed Messman, CEO of Rook Capital
Ed Messman is the CEO of Rook Capital, a company that's on a mission to make home ownership and affordability more attainable for the next generation of home owners and real estate investors. He brings his experience in finance and building startups to lead his team with authenticity, getting…
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Transforming the Health Care Industry - Joanne Mizell, COO of Banner|Aetna
We're joined by Joanne Mizell to talk about the Banner|Aetna merger to transform the health care industry and how they're uniquely positioned to fix much of the broken aspects of this space. As mentioned: The Banner|Aetna Way / Fundamentals...
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Building the Next Big Fintech Company - Caleb Avery, Founder & CEO of Tilled
Caleb Avery is the Founder & CEO of Tilled, a PayFac-as-a-Service company helping software companies monetize their payments. Tilled raised a Series of A of $11M in May of 2021 and raised another $11M in the beginning of 2022 as they quadrupled their team and tripled their valuation in just over…
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Building the Space Economy with Sierra Space, York Space & Orbit Fab
A Denver Startup Week discussion about what is possible for humanity with the space revolution, the future of tech, and how it could impact lives on earth for generations to come. Panelists - - Steve Lindsey, CTO & SVP Advanced Programs, Sierra Space - Monica Palko, Chief Legal & Administrative...
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Saving Lives Through Data - Eon Health's Co-CEO's
Christine Spraker & Dr. Aki Alzubaidi are the Co-CEO's of Eon Health, a data science company that is on a mission to defy diseases by ensuring the right data reaches the right people at the right time. Eon Health is notably backed by Mark Cuban and recently raised a $16M series A led by Integrity...
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Building a Consumer Fin-tech Company
Isaac Freckleton, CEO & Founder of Eve Financial, shares how his company is helping consumers pay for unexpected expenses. He also discusses his role as the CEO, what's helped him most as a Founder, and how mentors have played such a big role in his career.
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Giving Access to Care through Telehealth - Kevin McGarvey, Founder & President of Hippo Health
Kevin McGarvey is the Founder & President of Hippo Health which is on a mission to easily connect patients and doctors through virtual care. Hippo Health has built a platform where you can talk, text, or video chat with a doctor when you need too. Kevin shares about his entrepreneurial journey…
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Solving Labor Shortages with AI - Rob Carpenter, Founder & CEO of Valyant AI
Rob Carpenter discusses how his company is solving for labor shortages in retail by building AI to help with things like drive thru and call ahead ordering. Rob also discusses how founders need to adapt to the current environment and what he is focused on as the CEO.
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Democratizing Venture Capital with Cara Morphew, Partner of Sweater Ventures
Cara Morphew is a Partner at Sweater Ventures, a venture fund for everyday investors, including non-accredited retail investors. Sweater is looking to democratize venture capital by giving access to an asset class that historically is limited to the wealthy. Sweater recently raised $12M to build...
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Jen Farmer, CMO of Neat Capital
Interview with Jen Farmer who is the CMO of Neat Capital, a Colorado based Fintech company that recently raised their Series B-1 from Forecast Labs which is a division of Comcast. Neat has raised over $40M in venture capital and is revolutionizing the home lending process allowing people to…
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Ridesharing in Space | Atomos Space Founders
Vanessa Clark & William Kowalski are the founders of Atomos Space, a venture backed startup focused on building the future of space mobility and logistics. Atomos is developing orbital transfer vehicles that reduce the cost of access to space by fostering greater ridesharing in launch vehicles...
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Josh Chapman, Managing Partner of Konvoy Ventures
Josh Chapman is the Managing Partner of Konvoy Ventures, an early-stage venture fund investing exclusively in platforms and technologies in video gaming. Konvoy has invested in over 21 companies and is now investing out of their second fund of approximately $65M. Prior to co-founding Konvoy...
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Jonathan Jachimiec Chief Financial Officer of MycoTechnology
Jonathan Jachimiec is the Chief Financial Officer of MycoTechnology, a food ingredient company that is on a mission to solve some of the hardest challenges in the food and beverage industry. Jonathan has helped MycoTechnology raise over $120M in funding and recently negotiated a joint venture in...
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Joe Musselman Co-Founder of Broom Ventures
Joe Musselman is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Broom Ventures, a Venture Firm backing some of the most mission-oriented founders out there with the belief that Teams, Leadership, and Culture are the critical factors to the ultimate success of an organization. Prior to Broom, Joe was the...
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Dr. Robert Groves Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Banner | Aetna
Dr. Robert Groves is the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Banner | Aetna, a new insurance company in Arizona formed by a joint venture that leverages the strengths of the number one healthcare delivery organization in Arizona (Banner Health) along with the National insurance...
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Yosh Eisbart the Co-Founder & CEO of Fullfilld
Yosh Eisbart is the Co-Founder & CEO of Fullfilld, an intelligent location-aware warehouse management platform, which recently raised a $2.5M seed round that included former Amazon exec Jeff Wilke. Prior to Fullfilld, Yosh co-founded NIMBL which he and his team built to over $50M in revenue and...
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Interview with Jeff Foley
Jeff Foley Co-Founder & Board Member, Propeller "Focus on your hires – especially early on. A bad hire costs so much more than almost any other mistake you make as an early startup because you have fewer people." Jeff Foley is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Propeller, a management consulting...
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Tune in as Matt uncovers the inspiring stories, lessons, and advice on how to make it at the highest level from top executives, entrepreneurs, founders, thought leaders, and investors. Conversations include a wide range of topics and conversations including career advice, industry trends and challenges, failing forward, and incredible stories of perseverance and overcoming the odds especially in the arenas of tech, life sciences, finance, and more.
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