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The VentureFuel Visionaries — 297 episodes
Re-Release: Blueberry Boost Accelerator with Kasey Cronquist
Where AI Meets the Physical World with Quest Global’s Head of HiTech Tinku Malayil Jose
Unlocking Undervalued Markets with Halogen Ventures’ Founding Partner Jesse Draper
Selling Tickets to The Future with Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Founder and General Partner Charlie O’Donnell
Engineering the Future of Care with Intuitive Senior Engineer Prabagar Sankar
Commercializing Innovation at Scale – Comcast NBC Universal LIFT Labs Director Katie Teuber
Engineering AI That Matters with Navan Engineering Manager Raju Dandigam
Scaling Venture Clienting with REHAU New Ventures Director of Corporate Venturing Ronja Stoffregen
Scaling Innovation with The Duracell Company's Associate Director of Product Innovation & Strategy Manasa Nalla
AI at Enterprise Scale with AT&T’s Lead Data & AI Software Engineer Monika Malik
Building Enterprise AI with Startup Velocity with Microsoft’s Director of AI & Venture Ecosystems Taylor Black
Inside 2026 Startup City: Unlocking the Future of Urban Innovation
Why Large Enterprises Need to Make Bets Now with Mark Treiber
Collaborate to Innovate: Author Adèle Yaroulina
Winter FancyFaire* with VentureFuel’s SVP of Innovation and Strategy Alice Ponti
Pitch-Winning Protein: How Smearcase Is Building the Future with Functional Frozen Indulgence
Simplifying Complexity with Dot Foods’ Head of Innovation Jeff Barry.
Testing The Edges with Mars’ Global Vice President of Innovation Transformation Rainer Struck
Unlikely Entrepreneurs with Harvard Business School Professor Lou Shipley
Riches in the Niches with Former Dropps CEO Alastair Dorward
Building Innovation Ecosystems – Carnegia Mellon’s Steven Guo
Democratizing Venture Capital – Alumni Ventures CEO Mike Collins
Innovation over Renovation – Mission Ventures Co-Founder John Stapleton
Innovating with Purpose – Brooks Running CEO Jim Weber
From Corporate to Cookies: How Alexa Ryan Built Bakr into the Midwest’s #1 Dough Brand
Defending Your Reality: Cybersecurity & Gen AI with Ben Colman
From Law to Lager to Venture Capital: Rising Tide Ventures Founder Ruchi Desai
Shoptalk Spring 2025: What’s Next in Retail?
Redefining Healthcare Innovation – Northwestern Medicine Director of Ventures and Innovation Kali Arduini Ihde
Unlocking Strategic Impact from Startup Engagement: Building the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs’ Insights Engine
Strategic Capital and Commercialization – TELUS Global Ventures Partner Rohit Nuwal
Procurement as a Powerhouse for Public Innovation – Rikesh Shah, Connected Places Catapult
Tasting Tomorrow Today – Tastewise Co-Founder and CEO Alon Chen
Women’s Venture Summit – Stella Foundation CEO Flossie Hall
CVC Masterclass – Merck Global Health Innovation Fund President Bill Taranto
Insights at the Speed of AI – Comcast NBCUniversal. Sr. Manager of Pipeline and Insights Tito Obaisi
Igniting Dairy Innovation – California Milk Advisory Board CEO Bob Carroll
Agentic AI For Retail – ALDO Group Vice President of Data & AI Fatih Nayebi
Pilots to Portfolios: Comcast's Integrated Corporate Growth Startup Strategy
Innovating In Your Own Voice – Tahaji Felder Corporate Innovator and Startup Mentor
Visionary of the Year - Charlotte Newman
Accelerator Program Design – Wharton School Professor Valentina Assenova
AI Drug Discovery – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Innovation Hub Manager Rick Peng
Future Cities – CEO of Smart City Expo USA Aarti Tandon
Blueberry Boost Accelerator – President of US Highbush Blueberry Council and North American Blueberry Council Kasey Cronquist
Outside The Norm – Founding Partner of Outside VC Ethan Austin
Inside Corporate Venture Capital - Editor-In-Chief of Global Corporate Venturing Maija Palmer
Transforming Healthcare – Former Chief Strategy Officer John Muir Health Authors George Sauter
Expo West 2025 - Key Insights and Emerging Trends
Harvesting Innovation – FEI’s Seth Adler
The AI Marketing Canvas – Kellogg School of Management Professor Jim Lecinski
Midwest Dairy Accelerator - Research and Innovation Manager Sidney Herr
Unlocking Microsoft's Innovation Secrets – Authors JoAnn Garbin and Dean Carignan
The 3 Jobs of Corporate Innovators – Innov8rs Chief Hans Balmaekers
Driving Innovation Through Collaboration: Insights from VentureFuel Visionary of the Year Finalists
Al-Ran to Interconnected Realities - Nokia Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting Leslie Shannon
Health Trends and Consumer Preferences in Dairy
Balancing Tradition and Innovation in Dairy
The Opportunity for Lactose-Free Milk to Retake Share from Plant-Based
The Future of Health and Wellness in Dairy with Lauren Twigge
Exciting Re-Release: External Innovation For Internal Stakeholders — LG Electronics EVP Sokwoo Rhee
2024 Unwrapped – VentureFuel CEO Fred Schonenberg
Space Strategy - Seraphim Space Enterprise Managing Director Alexander Holt
The Most Fundable Companies – Pepperdine Graziadio Business School Program Manager Amy Wood
Visual Data - Coactive AI Co-Founder Will Gaviria Rojas
Farm2Food Accelerator – NASDA Foundation Senior Director Chris Jones
Raising the Bar - All Real Nutrition CEO Niall Harty
Re-Release: Excelerating Dairy – CMAB VP of Business Development Bob Carroll
Empowering Growth: Marlene Orozco on Latino Entrepreneurship and Access to Capital
Re-Release: Philanthropic Venturing — Valiente Fund's Maria Rodriguez
NFL to Venture - Champion Venture Partners Founder Marques Colston
Re-Release: Empowering Latino Entrepreneurs with Natalia Rodriguez-Hilt of Raza Development Fund
What Needs to Be Done - Stand Together Venture Lab Fellow Paolo Narciso
Leap Venture Studio – Mars Petcare Director Ventures Rachel Sheppard
Path Ahead Ventures – REI Dan Kihanya
Figure Eight – Author Marcelo DeSantis
Re-Release: Where Ideas Take Flight: Glasswing Ventures' Rudina Seseri On AI
Entrepreneur-Based Community Development - Raza Development Fund Natalia Rodriguez-Hilt
25 Lessons to Unlock Corporate Innovation –Co-Founder Webex Hologram Elizabeth Bieneck
Exciting Re-Release: Dive into Collaboration to Grow with PepsiCo & the California Milk Advisory Board
Silicon Prairie and The Future of the Semiconductor Industry - GlobalWafers Co. EVP Brent Omdahl
Interactive Characters & Immersive AI with Inworld AI CEO Kylan Gibbs
Commercializing Emerging Tech - Yale Ventures Director of the Roberts Innovation Fund Claudia Reuter
CVC to CVP – TDK, JP Morgan Chase, LG Electronics
Navigating Clean Tech Investing – Earthshot Ventures Managing Partner Mike Jackson
Defending Your Reality: Cybersecurity & Gen AI with Ben Colman of Reality Defender
From Setback to Success - The Role of Resilience and Strategy in Gotham FC's Rise with Yael Averbuch and Nan Vogel
Resilient, Steady, And Disciplined with Caroline Lewis, Sydney Paige Thomas, McKeever “Mac” Conwell II, and Yao Huang
Disrupting the Food Business – The Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert
Driving Resilient Growth through Corporate- Startup Partnerships with Limor Schafman, Lizzie Naylor, Shira Averbuch, and Danielle Cohn
What's Next Now: Building an Innovation Ecosystem
Advocacy, Access & Acceleration with Charlotte Newman and Aina Fadina
Scaling Climate Technologies - Elemental Excelerator COO Avra van der Zee
Igniting Innovation In the Corporate World - Philipp Willigmann
From Underdog to Top Dog with Jamie Norwood & Cynthia Blotch, Isoken Igbinedion, Kathryn Harrison, and Kathleen Carbone
Show Her the Money with La Keisha Landrum Pierre
Venture Clienting – ExxonMobil’s Global Innovation Lead Kyle Basler-Reeder
200th Episode Recap – VentureFuel Founder Fred Schonenberg
Show Her The Money – Producer Catherine Gray
Revenue First Innovation - Tampa Bay Innovation Center Managing Director Ken Evans
Philanthropic Venturing - Valiente Fund Executive Director Maria Rodriguez
VentureFuel Visionary and Venture of the Year
Visualizing Business – Microsoft Garage Director Mike Pell
External Innovation For Internal Stakeholders - LG Electronics EVP Sokwoo Rhee
Robotic Innovation – MassRobotics Accelerator Director Marita McGinn
Diversity & Innovation – Guerrero CEO Pedro Antonio Guerrero
From Bench to Bedside - University Hospitals Health System President, Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Daniel Simon
Disrupting with Impact – Dispact Ventures Founder Andrew Merinoff
Systems of Innovation – Intel Ignite Managing Director Markus Bohl
The Financial Markets and Innovation – UBS International SVP Brenda O’Connor Juanas
Shell and The Open Exploration of Energy - StudioX CEO Jeff Allyn
Data-driven Customer-centricity – Monterey AI Founder & CEO Chun Jiang
Beyond the Bottle - Diageo Director, Head of North America Ventures Sallie Jian
Why Corporations Invest in New Ventures – TDK Ventures President Nicolas Sauvage
Venture Capital and Leadership - 37 Angels Founder Angela Lee
Blooming – Blooming Health Co-Founder Nima Roohi with AARP Foundation
Pushing the Envelope - United Wholesale Mortgage’s Chief Innovation Officer Lee Jelenic
Where Ideas Take Flight - Glasswing Ventures Managing Partner Rudina Seseri
Remagine The Future with Gen AI: Remagine Ventures Managing Partner Eze Vidra
Tech For A Better Life: Wildwood Ventures Principal Kristen Gendron
Scaling Simplicity – Stanley Black & Decker VP of Business Development Marty Guay
Cartel Leadership – Eggland’s Best Former Founding Partner David Radlo
Health Equity - Boston Medical Center’s Director of Innovation Sheila Phicil
Radical Collaboration – Upcycled Foods Inc. Chief Innovation & Science Officer Dr. Lara Ramdin
Excelerating Dairy - CMAB VP of Business Development Bob Carroll
Time To Build – The Venture City’s Founder & CEO Laura González-Estéfani
Collaboration to Grow – PepsiCo & The California Milk Advisory Board
Authentic Entrepreneurship - Kinumi, Co:Create, Source
Building Access to Capital – The Fund, Comcast Ventures, Zane Venture Fund, Rogue Women’s Fun
Purpose Driven Innovation – AARP Foundation President Claire Casey
Enterprise Transformation – VF Corp, Biogen and Winnebago
The New Lift Labs Accelerator Program – Comcast NBC Universal Executive Directors Laura Plunkett and Luke Butler
Beauty Tech – L’Oréal Paris GM Elisabetta DeBole
Women-First Financial Innovation – Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck
The Origins of Rogue Women – Rogue Women’s Fund Managing Partner Caroline Lewis
Visionary & Venture of the Year – Antonia Dean of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs & Curio Digital Therapeutics’ Shaila Dixit
Corporate Innovation – with InHouse Physicians, Amazon Web Services and Huntington National Bank
Why Corporate Venturing - PepsiCo Global Chief Venturing and Investment Office Daniel Grubbs
NetWORKING Excellence – Author David Olivencia
The Intersection of Gaming, Fintech and Tomorrow - XSolla President Chris Hewish
The Flight of CVC - The Boeing Company Investment Strategy Principal Bobby Niehaus
Innovate From The Core – Mars Wrigley President of North America Principal Anton Vincent
10G – CableLabs VP of Product Strategy and Insights Anju Ahuja
Beyond The Tire – Goodyear Ventures Managing Director Abhijit Ganguly
The Kitchen of The Future – Head of Electrolux Innovation Lab Tove Chevalley
Rebroadcast: Storyteaching - Encantos Co-Founder Steven Wolfe Pereira
Chocolate Milk Champion - Featuring Josh Mendenhall, SPYLT Founder & Chief Brand Officer
Distilling the Future of Rum – Featuring Destilería Serrallés SVP of Manufacturing, Silvia Santiago
Healthy Aging-In-Place – AARP Foundation and Blooming Health
Your Next Drink - IWSR Chief Strategy Officer Brandy Rand
NY MilkLaunch – Fueling Demand for Dairy with Gen Z Consumers
Disrupting Drinks – Featuring AMASS CRO Gene Song + DGS Founders & Owners Jen and Manuel Aczualdez
Ventures to Watch in Beer, Wine & Spirits – Featuring VentureFuel’s Own Fred Schonenberg & Vanessa Rosado
The Frontlines of Beverage Innovation – Featuring Anheuser-Busch’s Alice Ponti, Proximo’s Seth Yassky & Malkin Law’s Ryan Malkin
Beer in the Metaverse - The Heineken Company Global Head of Digital Consumer Innovation Natacha Volpini
BeautyTech – L’Oréal BOLD Ventures VP Rachel Weiss
Hospitality Innovation – Founders From Pinktada, STAY OPEN & stayDAO
Transforming Travel featuring Kevin Kleist, Emerging Trends Advisor, Southwest Airlines
The Netflix of Corporate Learning – Circus Street Co-Founder Jonny Townsend
Healthcare Innovation
From Proof of Concept to Patient Care
Collaboration Acceleration – GM Ventures Head of Open Innovation and Principal Ted Graham
Future of Health – Vitamin Shoppe CEO Sharon Leite
Sustainability Innovation – AB InBev’s Andre Fourie and LanzaTech’s Freya Burton
Urgent Optimism – The Earthshot Prize CEO Hannah Jones
A Climate Positive Food Ecosystem – Big Idea Ventures Chief Investment Officer Tom Mastrobuoni
Amplifying Expertise in Retail – Dick’s Sporting Goods Retail Innovation Program
Women & Wealth - A Roadmap for Financial Empowerment
Intrapreneurship Unlocked - Webex Hologram Co-Founder Elizabeth Bieniek
The Wyatt Earp of Sustainability – Bass Pro Shops Chief Sustainability Officer Phil Graves
Family, Financial and Career Health – Coca-Cola, Features Capital, Clutch Wallet and Little Otter
Future of Work – Conair, Comcast, Diageo, Vitalize Venture Capital and Fullscript
Empowering Female Entrepreneurs – Hot Bread Kitchen Diana Taylor and Leslie Abbey
Accessible Adaptogens - Heywell Co-Founder Britt Dougherty
Fighting Invisibility - The Martin Agency CEO Kristen Cavallo
Brave Commerce - Profitero President Sarah Hofstetter
From Cyrpto to Investing – The Future of FinTech with Kristin Smith, Nisha Desai and Dax Grant
Financial Impact Challenge – Comcast, SoloFunds and HoneyComb Credit
Subscription 3.0 - Bespoke Post Chief Merchandising Officer Michelle Evans
Climate Tech Investing - Mission One Capital Founder Kiel Berry
Visionaries & Ventures - Cathy Hackl, Chief Metaverse Officer & Travis Montaque, Founder & CEO of Holler
Are your NFTs Fierce – Fierce Studio Co-Founder Marissa Skolnick
Real-Time Hologram Telepresence – Portl Founder David Nussbaum
CES 2022 - From Autonomous Vehicles to Nibbling Robotic Pets, the VF POV on this year's Show
Predictions 2022 – The Innovators at VentureFuel
The VentureFuel Visionaries Part 2: Erin Chin, Dominic Venturo & Samantha Huang
The VentureFuel Visionaries Part 1: Pedro Earp, Cathy Hackl & Mauro Porcini
Mom’s Upcyle – MOM’s Organic Market Category Manager Liz Dunn and Upcycled Food Association CEO Turner Wyatt
Excelerator Finalists – ReThink Ice Cream & Wonder Monday
Excelerator Finalists - NightFood & SweetKiwi
Future of Fandom 2 – Indiana Pacers and Chicago Fire
Future of Fandom 1 – Cubs, Learfield, NYU
Business Builder – Salesforce RVP Jonathan Weston
Future of Fandom - NYU Tisch Institute for Global Sport Associate Dean Vince Gennaro
Angeles Investors – Chair of Adela Cepeda
4 in a Box - Walmart+ VP of Product Vinod Suresh
Ambient Banking – US Bank Chief Digital Officer Dominic Venturo
Eye-Contact with Darth Vader - ILMxLab VP of Immersive Content Innovation Vicki Dobbs Beck
Ending Senior Poverty – AARP Foundation President Lisa Ryerson
#Creators4BIPOC : Logitech For Creators CMO Erin Chin
Ireland’s Ventures to Watch – Bord Bia, The Irish Food Board
Disrupting Energy and Endurance - X2 Performance CEO Mark French
Future of Grocery – What’s Next Now
Mission Control to Mission Connect – NASA Program Manager Steven Rader
Horse Racing In The Metaverse – AB InBev and Virtually Human Studios (Zed.Run)
An Inside Look at What’s Next Now
Beyond Innovation Champions – LogMeIn Corporate Strategy Christian Ponce
Functional Food & Beverages – What’s Next Now
Innovation By Design – PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini
Micro Data For Macro Results – Instacart, Mondelez and Burbio
Translating Transformation – Rosetta Stone President Matt Hulett
Automation & Acceleration - BMW i Ventures Principal Samantha Huang
Launch with GS: Encantos + Holler
Sustainability and Innovation: Ralph Lauren and NFW
Keepin It Clean – Tennessee Riverkeeper Founder David Whiteside
For Every Smile – Plus Ultra Founder Christina Ramirez
Virtual Flow Through Connection – Filo CMO Jeff Rohrs
Brewing Up The Future – Pedro Earp CMO AB InBev, Head of ZX Ventures
The Democratization of Innovation - Verizon Consumer Group EVP & CEO Ronan Dunne
Rogue Women 4 – Perseverance
OG Rogue Woman – Caroline Lewis, Partner at Rogue Ventures
Women’s History Month - Featured Visionaries
Tomorrow’s Connected TV – Alphonso Co-Founder Raghu Kodige
Reinventing Retail – Lowe’s, RevTech, Pensa and VNTANA
CoLab – Brigette Wolf Global Head of SnackFutures at Mondelez
Black History Month Featured Visionaries
Live Content Virtually - OS Studios Co-Founder Ian Packard
Revolutionizing How We Connect – Jeyanayagam at Clorox, Strong at Next Ventures and Qu at Run The World
The Metaverse Meets EX – Futurist Cathy Hackl
The Chingona Factor – Chingona Founding Partner Samara Hernandez
Corporate Storytelling - Pass It Down CEO & Founder Chris Cummings
Now Normal – GK Digital Ventures Founder Greg Kahn
Storyteaching - Encantos Co-Founder Steven Wolfe Pereira
3 Flywheels of Growth – Gannett Chief Growth and Strategy Officer Mayur Gupta
Cowffee & Karviva – Founder Doug Young & Founder Angela Zeng
Superfrau & Slate Milk – Founder Melissa Martinelli & Co-Founder Manny Lubin
Commercializing Serendipity – Plain Sight, CEO & Founder James Chapman
Snackcelerator Tonight! – John Talbot and Bob Carroll of Real California Milk
Petit Pot & Sach Foods – Founders Maxime Pouvreau & Tarush Agarwal
Peekaboo & Cheese Bits – Jessica Levison Founder, Peekaboo Organics & Sergey Kucher/Stefen Choy Co-Founders Yummy Industries
CMO Whisperer – Sunday Dinner Founder Lindsey Slaby
Craft Alcohol DTC – Speakeasy Co. Co-Founder and CEO Josh Jacobs
Next Gen Snacking - SnackRiot Co-Founders Erica Wagner and Arielle Diskin
The Maestro of Category Creation – My/Mo Mochi Ice Cream CMO Russell Barnett
Covid Shakes Up Back to School – Burbio Co-Founder Dennis Roche
Warrior Shepherds – Chobani President and COO Peter McGuinness
Live Events Post-Covid – Realife Tech Founder and CEO Adam Goodyer
The Future of Drinking – Director Innovation & Ideation (Former) Diageo Ila Byrne
Disrupting Auto - Shift Founder and Co-CEO George Arison
NYC All In On Innovation – Wilson Lin, Founding Managing Director Cyber NYC
The Innovation Mindset – The Best of the VentureFuel Podcast
Why Startup Partnerships – The Best of the VentureFuel Podcast
AI Grocery Checkout – Popspots Co-Founder & CEO, Marlow Nickell
Rapid Military Innovation – AFVentures Director, Jason Rathje
Enrich Conversations Everywhere – Holler Founder & CEO, Travis Montaque
Welcome to 2030 – Paramount Pictures Futurist in Residence, Ted Schilowitz
A.I. Democratizing Music – Amper Music CEO Drew Silverstein
Optimizing Human Performance - Mel Strong, Next Ventures Managing Partner
Leading in the Dark - Adrian Parker, Global Vice President, Marketing at Patron
Supercharged Children’s Nutrition - Bears Nutrition Founding Team
The Power of Passion Communities - Twitch Chief Revenue Officer Walker Jacobs
Food Trends & Makers Communities - Foodboro Founder Mark Johnson
Augmenting Our Realities - Eyecandylab CEO & Co-Founder Robin Sho Moser
Snacking Made Right - Brigette Wolf - Global Head of SnackFutures at Mondelez
The Snackcelerator – CMAB’s CEO John Talbot and VP of Business Development Bob Carroll
Startup Agility with Corporate Ability - Estee Lauder Head of Strategic Partnerships Erika Parkins
Redefining a $40b Industry - MakeSpace Co-Founder Rahul Gandhi
Adapt to Win - Rogue Women's Fund Managing Partner Caroline Lewis
Combatting Bias & Harassment - AllVoices Founder Claire Schmidt
Starting Up College Sports – Learfield IMG College Chief Content, Development and Strategy Officer Rob Schneider
The Great Disruption - Comcast, AB InBev and Supergoop!
Collaborations Create Tomorrow - Capitol Records Sr. Director Modi Oyewole
Brand Safe Video Intelligence - IRIS.TV Founder Field Garthwaite and Head of Brand Strategy Michael Kahn
Government Innovation - U.S. Census Bureau Sr. Advisor Mara Abrams
Cloned Voice - Resemble Co-Founder Saqib Muhammad
Making Ideas Real - Microsoft Garage Director Mike Pell
Virtual Studios - Live CGI Founders Amanda and Marc Rowley
Lifting a Fortune 50 Company – Comcast NBCUniversal VP of Startup Engagement Danielle Cohn
Virtual Socialization - Run the World Co-Founder Xiaoyin Qu and Andreessen Horowitz Partner Li Jin
DTC and Finding the Misfits - The Clorox Company VP/GM Jackson Jeyanayagam
Zero Waste Sustainable Future - Package Free Shop Founder Lauren Singer
Sonic Branding to Priceless Experiences - Mastercard CMO Raja Rajamannar
User Generated Image Library - Unsplash Co-Founder Mikael Cho
Remote Collaboration for Live Sports - Head of Content & Media NBA 2K League Matt Arden
Supply Chain Disruption - Pod Foods Co-Founder Fiona Lee
The Future of Sports - adidas, Chicago Cubs and Next Ventures
Programmatic Virtual Events - Recess Co-Founder Jack Shannon
Virtual Product Placement - Ryff CRO Shini Wark
Cloud Creative Collection - Write Label CEO Gideon Stein
Conversational Commerce - XAPP Co-Founder Pat Higbie
Future of Consumer Research - Perksy Founder Nadia Masri
Athlete Influencer Platform - OpenSponsorship Founder Ishveen Anand
Printed Light Eco-Packaging - Inuru Founder Marcin Ratajczak
AI Automated Social Media - Lately Founder Kate Bradley Chernis
Tears of Joy Employee Recognition - Tribute Founder Andrew Horn
Automated Brand Safety - Kara Founder Marie Berry
Private Podcasting for Companies - Messy.fm Founder Molly Beck