DISRUPTTHEBOOK.COM - Key Persons
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- Strategist, Growth Hacker, Problem Solver and Former Fortune 100 Executive.
Amy Radin is a strategist, growth hacker and problem solver who brings 25 years of experience as a Fortune 100 marketing, digital and innovation operating executive to boards and executive teams seeking to develop, build, grow and scale businesses that address today's market needs. She's the author of "The Change Maker's Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any Company".
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- Director Operations and Strategy Director, MIT Media Lab.
- Founder of MarketCentrix
Barak is the founder of MarketCentrix, a consumer strategy consultancy for tech companies. Barak consults to start-ups, VCs, and large companies and serves as a board member or advisor to start-ups. Most recently, Barak was the Director of Operation and Strategy at the MIT Media Lab. Prior to the Media Lab, Barak was CEO of Evi, the virtual personal assistant acquired by Amazon, and is now the intelligence in Amazon Alexa. Over his 30 years + in consumer technology, Barak established a broad range of businesses. He was the founder or senior executive in many start-ups, including Wolfram Alpha, Six Apart, OmniSky, The Go Network, and Logitech. Before Logitech, Barak spent over nine years at Apple USA and Apple Japan in several roles leading consumer marketing, and he was the founding manager of Macy's Computer Stores.
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- Professor of Practice of Social Organizational Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Bill is a Professor of Practice of Social Organizational Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, and an Executive Team member at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). He authored 30 books and numerous articles in leading publications.
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- Author of "Disruption Proof" ( Aug 2 )
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- CEO
- Founder
- Founder & CEO, Hydrow.
Bruce Smith is the founder and CEO of hydrow, the fitness company which created the leading connected rowing machine. A former Head of the Charles winner, Bruce coached the US Lightweight Eight to a Bronze medal at the 2015 World Rowing Championships.
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- Cofounder, Futurity Systems.
Cecilia "Cece" Tham is the cofounder, principle and future synthesist at Futurity Systems, where she and her team are hard at work creating the future. Previously she created a leading collaborative Coworking community in Barcelona, Spain, was a Senior Social Technologist at Telefonica Alpha, the European moonshot factory, among many other roles. She is an acclaimed public speaker, and educator.
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- Author, Blitzscaling and Serial Entrepreneur.
Chris is the co-author of the bestselling book "Blitzscaling: The Lighting-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies", which he wrote along with Reid Hoffman. He is a serial entrepreneur and venture capital investor.
Learn why Chris believes that companies are collections of units operating at different stages in their lifecycle, why people typically fit into one specific stage, and why rolling a die is the perfect innovation metaphor.
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- CEO at Officinae Bio ( Mar 16 )
Dave is the CEO of AutonomyWorks, a company which employs a team of people with autism to deliver exceptional business services, while building independent lives for employees. Prior to AutonomyWorks, he spent 25 years assisting retail and consumer organizations in building brands through great customer experiences. Most recently, David served as President, Marketing for Sears Holdings.
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- General Partner, Vibe Capital.
Dave is a General Partner at Vibe Capital; formerly an early and long-time Facebook employee and startup founder.
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- CEO of Meetup
- CEO, Meetup.
David Siegel is the CEO of Meetup, the largest platform for finding and building local community. He has over 20 years of experience as a technology and digital media executive leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth, and digital traffic acceleration. Prior to joining Meetup, David was CEO of Investopedia and before that, President of Seeking Alpha. David's book, Decide and Conquer: 44 Decisions that will Make or Break All Leaders lays out the framework for decision-making that leaders can use to ensure organizational and personal success.
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- Principal, LeadDoAdapt Ventures and Distinguished Fellow, Atlantic Council & Stimpson Center.
David is a Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Stimson Center, and a principal at LeadDoAdapt Ventures. He has served in a variety of leadership roles in turbulent environments, including bioterrorism preparedness and response from 2000-2005, time on the ground in Afghanistan in 2009, serving as the non-partisan Executive Director for a bipartisan National Commission on R&D, and providing leadership as a non-partisan federal agency Senior Executive.
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- Google 's First and Former Chief Innovation Evangelist & Adjunct Professor, Stanford University ( Jun 20 )
Gisbert Rühl is the former CEO of Klöckner & Co, a steel manufacturer and one of the ten largest companies in Germany. At Klöckner he led a hugely successful transformation initiative, positioning the company as a global leader in its space.
Jane is obsessed with accelerating change at scale through conscious leadership. Her passion, expertise and two decades of experience are anchored at the intersection of technology and human potential. Jane's past work includes leadership roles at eBay, Sotheby's and Mozilla. She has founded and run large international teams, expanded organizations globally, built products, ran marketing departments and grown large scale open source communities. She was part of the founding team of jungle.com, the UK's first large-scale Internet company. Jane is also the President and Founder of The Coaching Fellowship, a 501c3 non-profit which nurtures and brings together some of the world's most extraordinary emerging young women leaders in social change. A passionate advocate for women and girls, Jane is the author of the new book, Unlocked - How Empowered Women Empower Women.
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- Principal Learning
- Principal, Learning & Facilitation
- Principal, Learning & Facilitation @ Be Radical Group
Jeffrey Rogers, Principal Learning & Facilitation at be radical, wants to get you involved. He believes the future is too important to be left to the futurists, and his grand professional goal is to empower more people to think/act/live and lead like the future is theirs to create. Jeffrey is passionate about lifelong learning and designing unique learning experiences that build knowledge while also building community. He's been a top-rated facilitator and moderator of executive education programs and international summits at Singularity University since 2017 and has also been featured as a guest lecturer and workshop leader at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, and the Empowerment Summit at ECAL in Lausanne.
Julian is an avid visionary eager to exchange questions, thoughts, and ideas with people from all perspectives. As a student of business, design & philosophy he strives for thoroughly thought through solutions and considerations. Having been part of the leading team of a non-profit incubator, he facilitates teams and solutions that are driven by intent. As a Stanford University Innovation Fellow he believes in a holistic and detailed perspective allowing us to seize opportunities and provide adequate solutions for today & tomorrow. Working as an innovation lead, venturing beyond the norm is exciting for him every time, but he believes that it's equally important to recognize what works and perfect and advance rather than to start anew. He's here to stimulate thoughts, learning, and exchange.
Over nearly three decades in technology, Pascal Finette has accrued all the experience you'd want in a high-level strategic advisor. Pascal started on the net before there was a web browser. He learned his way through founding a series of technology startups, launching a consulting firm to support entrepreneurs in scaling their own, and building a portfolio investing in early-stage tech companies. Pascal held leadership positions at era-defining powerhouses Google, eBay, and Mozilla, and he was the faculty chair for entrepreneurship and open innovation at Singularity University. He's worn many hats and knows what needs to go on in the brain under each of them to lead effectively.
What makes Pascal truly one-of-a-kind, however, is his ability to translate all of this experience into teachable insights, principles, and practices. This enables him to help corporate leaders and entrepreneurs do what they all say they want to do: transform their organizations, build what matters, tackle truly meaningful challenges & create lasting, positive change in the world.
Pascal brings refreshing honesty and a zero tolerance for bullshit to the buzzy intersection of technology, global impact, and culture, where he's established himself as a sought-after speaker and a uniquely perceptive communicator of hard truths and creative provocations. As the founder of the boutique advisory firm be radical and the posse leader at TheHeretic.org - where he's behind an opinionated newsletter and podcast with tens of thousands of subscribers - Pascal inspires, educates, and empowers leaders to make sense of accelerating change, envision the future of exponential technology, identify new opportunities, and develop successful, future-robust business strategies.
Mafe leads Business Development at be radical. She works closely with clients globally to create customized engagements that equip them with the knowledge and tools to build their ‘future organization. Previously, Mafe led Business Development at Fastrack Institute helping cities transform by adopting exponential technologies to create positive change for its citizens. She worked directly with Salim Ismail, first executive director of Singularity University and award-winning book author, and developed Fastracks in numerous cities around the globe. At Hult International Business School, Mafe was responsible for sales and marketing of Master‘s Degree Programs throughout Latin America, leading Hult's efforts in eight countries. Mafe is a mentor to many organizations and currently serves as a board director for the medical cannabis company PharmaCielo, based in Colombia. Mafe is passionate about inspiring individuals to live a radically different life.
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- Managing Partner at Bread and Butter Ventures ( Jan 27 )
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- Co - Founder
- Advisory Board Chair of EY
- Chief Heretic & Co - Founder
Pascal is Co-Founder (and Chief Heretic) at be radical. Further Pascal is EY's global wavespace Advisory Board Chair, member of the Digital Advisory Board at Pearson, board member and advisor to various startups and the co-founder of The Coaching Fellowship. He has spent his career pushing the boundaries of technology and passionately believes it can profoundly impact the betterment of humankind. Pascal's past work includes founding eBay's Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launching a global consulting firm, and investing into early-stage tech startups. He led Mozilla's Open Innovation Lab, their accelerator program WebFWD, and headed up Mozilla's Office of the Chair. As Principal at Google.org, he invested into social impact organizations around the globe. He publishes the opinionated newsletter, "The Heretic", and is the author of the book "The Heretic - Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs".
Pascal is the co-founder of be radical, EY's wavespace Advisory Board Chair, and Jury Chair for Science and Innovation Management at Falling Walls Foundation. Previously he held leadership positions at Google.org, Mozilla, and eBay, built technology startups, and launched a Venture Capital firm. He is the posse leader at TheHeretic.org, and the cofounder of the Women's Impact Alliance.
Pascal is the advisory board chair of EY's wavespace, a member of Pearson's digital advisory board, and the jury chair for the science and innovation management category at the Falling Walls Foundation.
Vivian is a champion of innovation for social good and the use of technology to help humanity thrive. She studied graphic design at CDMX, majored in fine arts in New York, and taught as a Montessori teacher. After several years of working with marginalized communities in Mexico, Israel, and Kenya, in 2011, she launched a cost-free social media campaign to help the hunger in Africa caused by the drought, in which she raised $ 100,000 USD in 10 days, brought together 57 international volunteers and delivered 40 tons of food and medical care to 20,000 affected people. In 2013, she attended Singularity University at NASA, where she studied the use of exponential technologies to integrate them into humanitarian work and apply them to change the world. After graduating, Vivian became Singularity University's ambassador in Mexico, in addition to being the Director of the Innovation Ecosystem of the Presidency of Mexico. Vivian is an international speaker and the Director of SingularityU Mexico.