Category Archives: Past Guests

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Can You Achieve Both Professional Success and Personal Success At The Same Time? S12 Ep22

Guest: Aaron Walker from Lead From The Top

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What do you do with a highly successful 35 year career? You pay-it-forward. You take the ups and downs you experienced and share it with others and help them achieve not just professional success – but also personal success. There seems to be an explosion of people hanging out their coach and mentor shingles. The […]

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How A Creative High School Student’s Science Fair Project Launched A Company And A Medical Device S12 Ep21

Guest: Nick Titus, CEO and Co-founder of Myonic Technologies Inc. (@myonic)

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The emerging creative economy is dependent on having a workforce that is skilled differently than in the past. These new skills include: critical thinking, using our natural ability to be highly creative, be willing to take risks and to not have a fear of failure. There are kids/young adults who showing the rest of us how they […]

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Interview with Dan Prosser

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Dan Prosser, as CEO of The Prosser Group, has over 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur CEO, speaker, teacher and mentor, coaching business leaders, entrepreneurs and micropreneurs to cultivate an uncommon approach to building an extraordinary competitive edge. Dan is the author of the Amazon Best-Seller for multiple weeks and one of the Top 30 Business […]

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Interview with Matt Bross

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Matt Bross is the former Global Chief Technology Officer of Huawei, British Telecom and is a well known industry visionary who is passionate about harnessing new technologies and driving service innovations that improve and transform the ability of people to communicate. Matt has a strong track record of understanding key global business trends and translating them […]

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Interview with Dr Vanu Bose of Vanu Inc

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Dr. Vanu Bose, Ph.D., is the Founder of Vanu Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Dr. Bose is the principal inventor of the software radio technology that serves as the basis of Vanu Inc.’s products. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Jumpstart, a non-profit focused on early childhood […]

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Interview with Tom Cellucci

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Tom appeared on the Oct 25th show. Dr. Tom Cellucci has been a senior executive in both the private and public sectors for over 32 years. He served as the US Government’s first-ever Chief Commercialization Officer, working for both President Bush and President Obama. Tom leads a successful management consulting firm, Cellucci Associates, Inc., based […]

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Interview with Dr. Natalie Baumgartner of RoundPegg

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Natalie appeared on the Oct 18, 2015 episode of the radio show. Dr. Natalie Baumgartner is a Co-Founder and the Chief Psychologist at RoundPegg. RoundPegg is The Culture and Engagement Platform for all companies. We strive to make it possible for people to fit and thrive where they work. With Culture Science at it’s core, […]

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Interview with Michael Mendenhall on Brand Innovation

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Michael Mendenhall appeared on the Oct 11, 2015 show Michael is the Chief Marketing and Chief Communications Officer at Flextronics. Previously, he served as the Chief Marketing & Communications Officer and Executive Vice President of Fusion-io, Inc. From 2007 through 2011, he served as Global Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President at Hewlett Packard. where his organization […]

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Interview with Toby Krout of Boomtown on the Pros and Cons of Startup Accelerators

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Toby Krout is an entrepreneur, investor, and startup coach. He co-founded Boomtown, a startup accelerator in Boulder, Colorado in 2013 where he currently serves as the Executive Director. Boomtown’s mission is to understand and continuously improve the modern accelerator model for the benefit of entrepreneurs. His startups currently enjoy a 96% survival rate and 78% […]

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Sept 20th with Peter Lierni and Mark Varricchione – co-founders of STEMlete

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Peter Lierni and Mark Varricchione are co-founders from STEMlete (a play on the word “athlete”) who saw that there were a number of online communities for the self-promotion of student athletes seeking to: exhibit their athletic excellence; share their knowledge; improve their performance; get recognized; establish a following; and be recruited and succeed; however, there was nothing analogous for […]

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Bill Geiser On The Innovation Of Wearables

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Bill Geiser is a smartwatch pioneer with 20+ years focus on wearables & smartwatch innovation. He is a serial entrepreneur / intrapreneur with a talent for identifying lucrative, market opportunities and the ability to harvest them evidenced by the fact that he founded two technology start ups acquired by publicly-traded firms. His most recent company he founded […]

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Bryan Kramer – Author of Shareology

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Bryan Kramer is one of the world’s foremost leaders in the art and science of sharing, and has been credited with instigating the #H2H human business movement in marketing and social. With over 300K social fans and followers, and an intimate understanding of the intricacies and interworking of both social technologies and social behaviors, Bryan […]

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Tara Roehl – Neural Diversity and Autism – The Impact on Creativity and Innovation

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Tara was the guest on the Aug 23rd Killer Innovations radio show. Topic: Neural Diversity and Autism – The Impact on Creativity and Innovation Bio: Tara Roehl is a nationally certified speech-language pathologist. She owns Speechy Keen Speech Therapy, a telepractice-based private practice in Colorado focusing on the social/pragmatic and executive functioning needs of students with ADHD, […]

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Peter Guber on Stories, Storytelling and How To Select Business Partners

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Peter Guber is Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment. Guber’s most recent films from Mandalay Entertainment include The Kids Are All Right, Soul Surfer, and Bernie. He has also produced Batman, The Witches of Eastwick, and Flashdance. His films have earned over $3 billion worldwide and numerous Academy Award nominations. Peter is also a co-owner of three professional sports teams: the […]

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August 16th with Paul Zane Pilzer

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Paul Zane Pilzer is an economist, social entrepreneur, professor, public servant, and the New York Times bestselling author of ten books and dozens of scholarly publications. Pilzer completed Lehigh University in three years and received his MBA from Wharton Business School in 15 months at age 22. He became Citibank’s youngest officer at age 22 […]

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Sept 6th with Noah Scalin

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Noah Scalin is an artist and activist. He founded the art & consulting firm Another Limited Rebellion in 2001 with the idea that he could make a living doing what he enjoyed and effect positive change in the world. He has authored five books on design and creativity and traveled the world bringing his message […]

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Robert Scoble – Technical evangelist, futurist and author

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Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He currently works for Rackspace and the Rackspace sponsored community site Building 43promoting breakthrough technology and startups. He previously worked for Fast Company as a video blogger. You can read more of his bio […]

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Steve Vannelli – Managing Director of GaveKal Capital

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Steven Vannelli is managing director of GaveKal Capital and portfolio manager of the GaveKal Knowledge Leaders Funds and ETFs. He oversees index creation. investment strategy, asset allocation, security selection and management of the investment team. Steve leads development on GaveKal’s analysis of intangible capital, studying how it affects corporate profitability and wealth creation. His work […]

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Daniel Epstein – Co-founder of Unreasonable Group

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Daniel’s life has been shaped by a fundamental belief that entrepreneurship is the answer to nearly all the issues we face today. By the time he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy, he’d already started three companies. In 2012 he was recognized by Inc. Magazine as a “30 under 30 entrepreneur” and by Forbes as […]

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Rahul Sood – co-founder and CEO Unikrn

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Rahul Sood is the CEO of Unikrn, a Seattle based eSports startup. Previous to Unikrn, Sood created the first incubation fund for startups at Microsoft, and eventually Microsoft consolidated their global startup activities under Sood’s leadership.  In June of 2013 he launched Microsoft Ventures. A serial entrepreneur, Sood spent 18 years in multiple startups prior […]

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D.P. Venkatesh – founder of mPortal

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D.P. Venkatesh has more than twenty five years experience in the Communications industry across Mobile, Internet, Cable and Media sectors. His roles have varied from executive management to strategic planning, product management and business development. As CEO of mPortal, Mr. Venkatesh oversees all aspects of strategy, sales, and marketing for mPortal. Over the past fifteen […]

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Bob Metcalfe – Inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3COM

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Bob Metcalfe, engineer, technology executive and venture capitalist, invented the Ethernet. He attended MIT and Harvard University, studying mathematics and computer science, before joining Xerox’s Palo Alto Research center. It was there that he was inspired to invent the Ethernet in 1973, which allowed computers to send packets of information and avoid collisions with incoming packets. […]

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Jim Sutton – Inventor of touch computing

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Jim Sutton had a long and distinguished career at HP across a number of product groups such as calculator and PC. While many thing the touch devices such as smartphones are a recent development, in fact Jim led the team that developed basic touch technology back in 1983 leading to the launch of the first […]

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Tim Berners-Lee – Inventor of the Web

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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He founded and Directs the World Wide Consortium (W3C) the forum for technical development of the Web. He founded the Web Foundation whose mission is that the WWW serves Humanity, and co-founded the Open Data Institute in London. His research group at MIT’s Computer Science and […]

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Chuck House – former HP executive and inventor of the Moon Monitor

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Chuck House is co-author with Raymond Price, of THE HP PHENOMENON: INNOVATION and BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION (2009, Stanford University Press). He is Exec Director of InnovaScapes Institute, which published his memoir of HP Colorado Springs, PERMISSION DENIED, in 2013. House, Chancellor Emeritus of Cogswell Polytechnical College, was also executive director of Media X, Stanford University’s research […]