Ep1051: Tikkun Olam Makers: Building Solutions and Bridges for Our Future

Matteo Boffa is a Swiss Social and Environmental Entrepreneur, resident in the United Arab Emirates for 4 years. After dedicating over 9 years of his career in the world of finance (Swiss Private Banker) and nearly 2 years in the Swiss Army (Chief Sergeant Major), he decided to make a radical change in his life and undertake a path linked to sustainability and the protection of the environment. In September 2020 Matteo was awarded as 30 under 30 by Forbes.

6 Mar 202121min

Kelly is on a mission to change the way the world learns and builds skills. A well-known thought leader on learning, business, and career development, she is currently on the executive team of Degreed as the chief learning/talent officer and was formerly the chief learning officer of LinkedIn. She is the co-author of the book The Expertise Economy: How the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete, and succeed, which was named one of the best business books of 2019.

5 Mar 202121min

Vijay Krishnan is the Co-Founder & CTO, of Turing.com. Turing enables US companies to hire and manage the top 1% of over 200,000 registered software developers from all over the world's remote software developers all over the world. The Turing platform vets developers for programming skills, CS fundamentals, tech stack skills as well as communication skills, and soft skills. At Turing Vijay leads data science efforts that drive automation in vetting, matching, and managing remote developers. Previously Vijay founded another AI company, Rover, that got acquired by Revcontent, where he was SVP of Data Science. Vijay was a scientist at Yahoo’s Data Mining and Research group and holds a patent on large-scale text categorization. Vijay has  Computer Science degrees (specializing in AI) from Stanford University and IIT Bombay.He lives in Palo Alto, California. You can find Vijay on Twitter and LinkedIn.

4 Mar 202121min

Alexa is the CEO & Co-Founder of tripAbrood, an award-winning tech startup shaping the future of family travel by creating the world's first AI-powered family travel booking experience. Prior to founding tripAbrood, Alexa had a decade-long career in financial services running regional sales and operations divisions for Bloomberg L.P. in Europe and Asia, that sold and scaled technology solutions to the world's learning financial institutions. Prior to Bloomberg, Alexa was the UK & Ireland Diversity Manager for Procter & Gamble. Alexa holds a master's degree in Modern Languages from Oxford University. As a mother of three young children, she has experienced the challenges of family travel first hand and decided to found tripAbrood to solve these challenges through technology.

3 Mar 202120min

Brett is an International Bestselling Author, a world-renowned futurist, and a media personality. President Xi Jinping cited his book Augmented. He has spoken in over 50 countries, given keynotes for TEDx, Wired, Techsauce, Singularity University, Web Summit, and many more. He hosts the world's #1 Fintech Radio Show/Podcast called Breaking Banks (180 countries, 6.5 million listeners) and is the founder of Moven, a globally recognized mobile start-up, which has raised over US$40 million to date, and launched the first in-app mobile bank account offered anywhere in the world.

2 Mar 202123min

Cindy is the founder and CEO of www.makelovenotporn.com,  launched at TED 2009 – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’. She turned MakeLoveNotPorn into the world’s first user-generated, human-curated social sex video-sharing platform https://www.makelovenotporn.tv/  socializing and normalizing sex in order to make it easier to talk about, to promote consent, communication, good sexual values, and good sexual behavior. Cindy speaks at conferences globally and consults, describing her approach as ‘I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.’

1 Mar 202121min

Frank is the founder and CEO of Rinspeed Inc., based in Zumikon/Switzerland, which he has established in 1977 as a young student at the Technical University of Zurich. While the import of sunroofs from the USA was his first business activity, Rinspeed soon became a pioneer in the tuning industry. The invention of the steering wheel with integrated controls for radio or other functions, sustainable powertrains and driver assistance systems are amongst noteworthy milestones in the company’s history. Frank’s activities are centered on being a Think Tank of the automotive and other industries and create and promote innovative technologies, materials and mobility means of tomorrow.

28 Feb 202122min

Olivia has taught leadership, innovation, genius, and charisma at Harvard, Yale, MIT and the United Nations. She is the co-founder of KindEarth.Tech and former Director of Innovative Leadership for Stanford's startup accelerator as well as a best-selling author and keynote speaker for Fortune 500 companies. Olivia’s first book, The Charisma Myth, published by Penguin Random House, went into a second printing before it even launched; her books have been translated into 32 languages, including Mongolian. She is currently writing “The Genius Myth: How Anyone Can Learn To Access Their Inner Einstein.”

27 Feb 202122min