#asktheceo Podcast

Urban Farming with Jonathan Bernard, Square Roots. Jonathan Bernard is an urban farming Entrepreneur with Square Roots in New York City. In November of 2016, Square Roots chose ten urban farming entrepreneurs to run their own farms and build their own businesses. Founded by Tobias Peggs and Kimbal Musk, Square Roots is an urban farming accelerator that runs for one full year, before selecting a new cohort year after year. Before becoming an entrepreneur, he studied accounting in college and worked in the field for a few years. Later realizing he really wasn't happy, Jonathan decided to follow his passion for cooking and growing food, and very coincidentally discovered Square Roots, which at the same time was planning to start their first ever program. He's now seven months into the program and ridiculously grateful he took this leap of faith. Jonathan is extremely knowledgeable in urban agriculture, and fields lots of questions from our awesome global audience! What are the pain points of farmers? How do

Submarine Cables with Mike Cunningham Mike is the CEO of Crosslake Fibre. Crosslake Fibre is developing a fibre optic cable from Toronto to Buffalo, NY through Lake Ontario to provide a physically diverse, lower latency route from Toronto to the USA. Contact Mike: http://crosslakefibre.com/ Contact Avrohom: web: http://asktheceo.biz email: avrohomg@asktheceo.biz Twitter: @avrohomg Instagram: @avrohomg Phone: +1 (845) 418-5340 Phone: +972-72-224-4449 Avrohom is a Cybersecurity advisor who specializes in security solutions for Telecom Providers and Contact Centers in Global Organizations. He comes from a 20+ year career in Telecom, where he helped businesses around the world install and maintain their communication systems and contact centers. He is a Top-ranked global IoT expert by Postscapes.com, followed worldwide on Twitter, and a frequent speaker on using technology to accelerate revenue growth. Avrohom is also the founder of #AskTheCEO, an online technology thought leadership community, whose mission

Cybersecurity & Hacking with Scott Schober Mr. Scott N. Schober is the President and CEO of Berkeley Varitronics Systems (BVS), a 45 year-old New Jersey-based privately held company and leading provider of advanced, world-class wireless test and security solutions. Since the beginning of Mr. Schober’s BVS tenure in 1989, the company’s product line of wireless test and security instruments has increased to over 100 products with a core focus on Wi-Fi, Cellular, WiMAX, LTE, IoT and advanced radio devices. As an experienced software engineer, Schober has developed cellular test instruments used for measuring, optimizing and plotting signal coverage, primarily for the initial cellular build-out throughout the United States. Scott’s recent focus has been development (patent pending) of BVS’ cell phone detection tools, used to enforce a ‘no cell phone policy’ in various markets including government, corporate, military, educational, correctional and law enforcement. Thousands of these security tools have been depl

Augmented Reality and HoloLens Technology with Max Doelle Maximilian Doelle is Chief Prototyper at Kazendi - a lean innovation studio that exists to challenge processes and enlighten minds for a changing world. Max works to inspire companies towards better customer engagement by demonstrating the opportunities that come with emerging technologies. With his team, he is speeding up innovation and challenging the status quo through radical iteration. Kazendi has now delivered over 10 commercial HoloLens projects for clients such as Liverpool Victoria insurance, Allianz, Anglian Water, Selligent and many others. Therefore, the team is now considered Europe’s experts on prototyping for HoloLens. Contact Max: Web: https://www.kazendi.com/ Email: max@kazendi.com You Tube Video Mentioned on our Interview regarding how Augmented Reality is paving the way in which organizations can serve their customers for the better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eeUP... Contact Avrohom: web: http://asktheceo.biz email: avr

Leverage Social Media for B2B Sales with Evan Kirstel 98% of top sales people say #socialselling is 'extremely critical'​ to the closing of deals, and 47% acquired a new client by #leadgeneration on Twitter! As a top B2B IT influencer with 125K Twitter followers Evan can help massively grow your online audience and leverage social media as a B2B sales networking, lead generation and thought leadership tool. He has been named on the top 20 most mentioned and RTs by Both CIOs and CMOs on Twitter in 2016. Member of influencer programs at Huawei, Pitney Bowes, IBM, ANA, DellEMC and others. With 20+ years of sales, alliances & Biz Dev experience in the telecom and IT arena, Evan brings a unique perspective on opportunities in the Unified Communications & Collaboration segment, including deep knowledge of social, mobile, and the voice/video/web collaboration market and cloud technology. He has a solid understanding of emerging Cloud & mobile technology and market convergence dynamics, along with a strong track

Soft Skills are Key in Cyber and Technology Careers! At only 26 years old Deidre Diamond was the Vice President of Sales for the national technical staffing agency Motion Recruitment, in charge of leading the hiring, training and development of hundreds of technical recruiters from an entry-level college graduate hiring model. Diamond took this almost 15 years of technical staffing experience to Rapid7 (NYSE:RPD) as their first Vice President of Sales. Diamond’s leadership resulted in Rapid7’s new sales revenue increasing from $800,000 to $20M in under four years—consequently creating $45M in new revenue generation. Diamond then became the CEO of Percussion Software, where she led the new content marketing software releases and learned the operations and execution of digital marketing, content marketing and web development. Diamond is now the Founder and CEO of national cyber security staffing company CyberSN and the not-for-profit organization #brainbabe (brainbabe.org). Because Diamond herself was hired

Ian Moyse, is Sales Director of Cloud Telephony provider Natterbox and has been a leader in the cloud industry for over 12 years. Ian sat on the Boards of Eurocloud, FAST and the Cloud Industry Forum and is a judge on the UK Cloud Awards. Ian has been rated #1 Global SaaS influencer (Klout) and #1 cloud Social influencer 2017 (Onalytica) http://www.onalytica.com . He is widely published on Cloud and is an approved writer for Cloudtech and has been published by the National Computing Centre. Ian was awarded UK Sales Director of the year by Institute of Sales & Marketing and is widely known as a leading Social Seller. Ian can be found and followed on Twitter and LInkedin. Contact Ian: Twitter: http://www.ianmoyse.cloud/ Linked In: http://www.ianmoyse.co.uk/ Web: http://www.natterbox.com/ Contact Avrohom: web: http://asktheceo.biz email: avrohomg@asktheceo.biz Twitter: @avrohomg Instagram: @avrohomg Phone: +1 (845) 418-5340 Phone: +972-72-224-4449 Avrohom is a Cybersecurity advisor who specializes in

Network Security and SD-WAN Technology With Erik Knight Erik Knight is the founder and CEO of SimpleWan. He is a foremost expert in the field of cyber security having over 20 years of experience in securing businesses from cyber hacks and identity theft. Due to his leadership, SimpleWan is now recognized globally, as an affordable defense system for businesses so that IT specialists can track real-time statistics, network health such as temperature, traffic, latency, link connectivity and more, on all of their devices from the dashboard and respond to threats immediately. Prior to SimpleWan, Knight started COMVOICE, an early to market hosted VoIP company, and also an IT company; both successfully sold and rolled up by other companies. Knight also developed DirtSearch.org, which is a free background search site. Knight currently has a series of patent pending; all involving development and inventing new technologies. His specializations & experience include: Oracle DB; MYSQL/PHP; Cisco CCNA; Microsoft; Windo

Advancing Women In Technology with Michelle Ragusa-McBain Michelle is a 12 year Cisco veteran, who currently serves as a Sales/Channel Segment Operations Manager. She was recently recognized as winner of the prestigious Cisco World Wide Channel Organization Award for Innovation and Growth as well as honored numerous times including the Commitment to Excellence Award for my work in the IT channel. She lead various influential roles within the Cisco Community: Worldwide Lead for Rewards and Recognition, Employee Engagement, and Volunteer and Give Back, as well as an active member of Cisco’s Empowered Women’s Network. Outside of Cisco, she serves as Chair of CompTIA’s Advancing Women in IT Executive Council, where she focuses on outreach to encourage young women to pursue careers in technology, and helps companies create cultures to not only attract but retain women, and millennials. In addition Michelle has recently joined the CRN advisory board for Women in the Channel. She has been recognized as one of the G

Intelligent IoT Messaging with Ken Herron Ken is a top influencer on IoT and 4th most followed CMO on Twitter. He is the Chief Marketing Officer for Singapore based intelligent IoT Messaging Company, Unified Inbox. He's also a popular author and frequent speaker on Leveraging technology for marketing. He helps Global Brands increase their revenue and market share by leveraging technology to develop stronger emotional connections between businesses and their customers. Contact Ken: Web: shout.ms Twitter: @KenHerron Contact Avrohom: web: http://asktheceo.biz email: avrohomg@asktheceo.biz Twitter: @avrohomg Instagram: @avrohomg Phone: +1 (845) 418-5340 Phone: +972-72-224-4449 Avrohom is a Cybersecurity advisor who specializes in security solutions for Telecom Providers and Contact Centers in Global Organizations. He comes from a 20+ year career in Telecom, where he helped businesses around the world install and maintain their communication systems and contact centers. He is a Top-ranked global IoT expert b

B2B Marketing for Technology Companies with Perry Nalevka, Penguin Strategies. Perry is the CEO of Penguin Strategies, a company that helps B2B Technology Companies better meet their business goals through inbound marketing. They are especially focused on Cybersecurity, Cloud, IT Infrastructure, and Telecom Technologies. In the past 15 years Perry has Co-Founded and been part of Executive leadership in B2B technology startups/leaders both in Israel and the US: REGED, Bolt, MobileMax, OpenLegacy, Daitan Group, IPGallery & Penguin Strategies. In his efforts to grow companies and generate new business, Perry found that the proper blend of Marketing Automation (Hubspot & Marketo), Technology, networking and Social Media bring great results. He shares that knowledge and experience with his customers. He works with customers in Israel, Europe and the US. Contact Perry: Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pnalevka/ Contact Avrohom: web: http://asktheceo.biz email: avrohomg@asktheceo.biz Twitter: @avrohom

How to Build a Successful Channel. Jay McBain is an accomplished speaker, author and innovator in the IT industry. Named to the Top 40 Under Forty list by the Business Review, Top 20 Global Channel Visionary by ChannelPro, #19 Newsmaker by CDN Magazine, Top 50 Global Channel Influencer by Penton, Top 100 Most Respected Thought Leader by Vertical Systems Reseller Magazine, member of Global Power 150 by SMB Magazine, and the Top 250 Global Managed Services Executives by MSPmentor. Jay is often sought out for keynotes, consulting, thought leadership and industry guidance. He has spent his 22 year career in various Executive sales, marketing, channel and strategy roles within IBM, Lenovo and Autotask. Most recently, as the Co-founder and CEO of ChannelEyes, he led a startup that disrupted the social, mobile and predictive analytics software industry for channel programs. Jay currently serves as Chairman emeritus of the CompTIA Vendor Advisory Council and Managed Services Community. He is a Board member of the

How to cut IaaS spending in half. Eric Didier OneKloud Founder and CEO Originally from the Champagne capital of the world, Reims in France, serial entrepreneur Eric Didier is a very international, San Francisco local. His company OneKloud, offers a disruptive solution for companies that employ Cloud infrastructure, with an easy-to-implement platform that controls this corporate IaaS spending before it happens, allowing companies to cut this expense by up to half, reclaim the control of their IT budget, and actually help teams to work smarter. Eric has worked building fast growing companies with clients and teams in North and South America, Europe, China and India. He champions borderless innovation and knows how spot a hot project. Contact Eric: Email: eric@onekloud.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericdidier/ Contact Avrohom: Web: http://www.simiplex.com Email: avrohomg@simiplex.com Twitter: @avrohomg Phone: +1 (845) 418-5340 SimiPlex Technologies helps companies increase their revenues and

How to Maintain Relevancy in a Rapidly Changing World. Yvonne a recognized thought leader in how to maintain relevancy in a rapidly changing world. Her impact has earned her recognition as WSJ Woman of Note, Silicon Valley Woman of Influence and the Boardlist Top 20. Her passion is partnering with leading companies to grow their businesses leveraging technology, agile leadership and diverse teams. Yvonne also is a vocal advocate for the growing interdependence of technology and diversity. Currently, Yvonne is the Chief Information Officer at New Relic, a digital intelligence platform company. She joined New Relic to prepare the company for its IPO and subsequently has led key growth initiatives contributing to more than doubling revenues within 2 years. Previously, Yvonne held multiple leadership positions at VMware, scaling the company from $2B to $6B. Yvonne began her career as a software engineer at Accenture, where she held a variety of leadership roles over 17 years. Yvonne serves on the Board of Di

A deep dive into Amazon Web Services and Living your passion. Notice: All statements are the interviewee's personal opinion and may not reflect Amazon's messaging or positioning. Julio is a software engineer and educator, fascinated by learning processes - machine and human. Cares for Developer Relations at Amazon Web Services, presenting the greatest and latest from the cloud and bringing back user experiences. Before that, worked at Red Hat, Borland, Governments, Telcos, Startups and too many pet projects. Julio shares his knowledge and wisdom by educating us on the technology called The Cloud. We covered topics ranging from The Amazon product suite to Green Energy. From Machine Learning to Vendor Locking. We even discussed how your business can survive a full blown Zombie Apocalypse! Check out this episode for a fun educational discussion on Cloud technology as well as how you can make a difference in the services that Amazon offers. Contact Julio: Web: http://julio.cloud Twitter: @jmfaerman twitch.tv

The Telecom Landscape with Douglas Green Telecom Reseller is the leading news source for the Unified Communication, Cloud and Collaboration. Available online, in print, by podcast, eBulletin and broadcast, Telecom Reseller reports on all aspects of enterprise grade communications, with a special focus on the needs of organizations that either use or sell Avaya, Cisco, NEC, Mitel, Shoretel, Aastra, Lync and in formats that includes premises and cloud. Over 40,000 readers enjoy one or more of our news services each month. Doug is married, one daughter aged sixteen, and currently serves as vice president, and is the former president of Congregation Kol Ami in Vancouver WA. Kol Ami's synagogue building project began while Doug was president in 2007 as five year plan to buy land, secure funding, design and construct a complete synagogue. The synagogue, Vancouver WA's first, opened in 2012. Specialties: Professionally reporting, publishing, multimedia news services. Volunteer dedicated to the ongoing developme