Tag: CEO

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare. Elay Cohen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Saleshood, a Sales Enablement Platform. Recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as a “mover and shaker” in sales leadership and listed by LinkedIn as one of the world’s top sales experts. Named Salesforce’s 2011 Executive of the Year by Marc Benioff after creating a Partner Relationship Management category and product line at Salesforce, Elay’s experience in B2B sales effeciencies is thoughtful and comprehensive. M.R. Rangaswami: Why is sales enablement exploding now?  Elay Cohen: There are three main factors. First, the pandemic has accelerated the need for organizations to have ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare. Cody Sudmeier’s leap into entrepreneurship happened at age 26 with a “Jerry Maguire moment.”  Passed up for a promotion at the global consulting firm, Cody made the rash decision (his words), to leave his job and to launch Agility Solutions, a profit assurance consulting firm he co-founded with Sami Ibrahim. Agility was twice recognized as Denver’s fastest-growing private company, expanding to 50 consultants under Cody’s leadership. he then sold his ownership in Agility in 2014 to focus on a new venture. With co-founder, Jamie Regehr, Spur Experiences has grown the business into an international presence, ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare. CEO Fiona Smythe is no amateur in the health-tech space. She and her husband co-founded mscripts, a patient communication platform for pharmacies, that sold to Cardinal Health in 2019. Following that, Fiona started her new digital health startup – MedaSystems; an expanded access software for health care professionals helping patients with serious and life-threatening conditions.With this new venture, Fiona and her team are focusing on the growing opportunities to help patients get access to investigational therapies. A self-described water-girl, Fiona finds her own therapeutic benefits from rowing and open water swimming in the San ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare. The team at ALICE Tech knows that the construction segment can be slow to adopt new technology and the tools that many use for project scheduling and management. Excel and Microsoft Project are decades old and are not purpose-built, making ALICE an industry breath of fresh air.Through AI, ALICE enables customers to create millions of potential schedules at once, and then analyze those options to find the path that best suits their business goals. Companies can reduce risk and save months of production time and millions of dollars in costs. So yes, the technology is cool, but so ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare. As a multidisciplinary professional with a background in health data, AI, ML, IT analytics and corporate R&D, Jehan was able to recognize a gap in verifiable receipt data.With a unique career combination of Computer Science, Public Health Epidemiology, and Privacy Law, Jehan built Banyan to enable merchants and banks to deliver personalized services to their customers. He worked in CPG while at Campbell’s Soup, and FinTech/OCR while building receipt-capture apps for clinical trials at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This conversation is a light into the corners of an industry not often ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare. 30 years of experience is a lot to bring to a company – and with Bob’s success in tech, telecommunication and consumer service businesses, ClearCaptions’ is the beneficiary.Sharing his passion for improving innovative products that are simple and effective for people (especially those that are hard-of-hearing), Bob and his teams are not just supporting how people communicate, they are helping people maintain their independence.    M.R. Rangaswami: Since your business specifically serves seniors in their homes, did you see any changes in how your service was used by your customers during the global pandemic?  ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare. Founder and CEO of Socialive, the self-service video content creation platform for the enterprise.With 15 years of leadership and innovation in digital media, David’s experience and tenacity has shaped the company into the fast-growing innovation leader that it is today. Before Socialive, David developed and launched Scholastic’s first digital learning platform and worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. Our conversation is a great reference for entrepreneurs who have developed a technology with one function in mind, but are willing to pivot and adapt to meet an entirely different market’s demand.  M.R. Asks ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare.  M.R. Rangaswami: What are some of the biggest challenges you believe your technology can solve? Nancy Xiao: When it comes to bringing new dedicated devices to market, there are significant barriers to entry—so many, in fact, that most entrepreneurs don’t even begin to attempt it. Developing and deploying a smart device requires a sophisticated and costly combination of hardware, software, and delivery services, much of which is a black box to a company that might be focused only on building the best retail checkout experience or patient medication diary software. Creating a fully integrated ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare. A New Jersey native, Brian Burt spent most of his life in Arizona and Chicago before moving to Austin to launch CANOPY Management. As a lifelong entrepreneur, Brian has founded more than a handful of 7- to 8-figure businesses and is a regular feature in Forbes, Bloomberg, Entrepreneur, Adweek, Digital Commerce 360, CNBC, and more.As the Founder of the Leading Amazon ‘Done-For-You’ Agency (www.CanopyManagement.com), a five-time 2 Comma Club Award Winner, three-time Amazon Seller Award Recipient, and an Eight Figure Award Winner, Brian is widely recognized as a leading mind & educator to digital ... Read More

Feed: Sand Hill Group. Author: clare. Arriving out of stealth with $55m in funding, Arvind Jain’s Glean is arriving to market with big backers who are keen to benefit from a work assistant that brings functional, timesaving benefits to enterprises. With their work assistant to search details from all of a company’s apps – Arvind and his teams are not just offering ease of information “finding” – but the powerful unified indexing is helping companies save at least two hours per week, per user.  Here is what Glean has launched with:  M.R. Rangaswami: Finding information at work has always posed problems ... Read More