Great Entrepreneurs with RJ Lumba

Supercharging AI infrastructure: Celestial AI’s David Lazovsky

In this episode, we speak with David Lazovsky, the Co-Founder and CEO of Celestial AI.  Founded in 2020, Celestial AI is the creator of the Photonic Fabric™ technology platform, a pioneering optical compute and memory fabric solution for supercharging AI infrastructure.
David leads the company in using his in-depth knowledge of semiconductors, data/telecommunications, photonics, clean energy industries, and extensive international business experience.
His impressive career background includes being an Executive Chairman of POET Technologies, Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures, and founder of Intermolecular.
David supports Canary Foundation. To learn more about this organization click here.
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Transforming Mobile Commerce: P97’s Donald Frieden

In this episode, we speak with Donald Frieden, the President and CEO of P97 Networks, which provides a global, cloud-based mobility services platform that enables mobile commerce, digital marketing, and consumer engagement for convenience retail, utilities, energy companies, and auto OEMs.
Since P97’s start in 2012, Donald’s been responsible for corporate governance and empowering a great team of individuals to innovate passionately, through his industry expertise in payments, mobile commerce, digital marketing, and petroleum.
Previously, he was a President and COO at Novolink Communications and a Vice President at Mobile Solutions at Invensys. Earlier in his career, he worked with SAT Corporation as a President and CEO.
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eCommerce FinTech Leader: SellersFi’s Ricardo Pero

In this episode, we speak with the CEO and Co-Founder of SellersFi, Ricardo Pero. SellersFi is a global financial technology company that aims to empower e-commerce merchants looking to grow. This is done through inventory and marketing, product launches, international expansion, and more.
Founded in 2017, Ricardo has led SellersFi through offering his 25+ years of experience in corporate treasury, wealth, and asset management.
Ricardo is an investor and advisor to companies in the US and LatAm as well as a former director in leading financial Institutions such as JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch. He previously founded OneLink Capital Partners.
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Biotech Entrepreneur: Georgiamune’s Dr. Samir Khleif

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Samir Khleif, the founder and CEO of Georgiamune. Georgiamune is a private, science and discovery clinical stage immunotherapeutic biotechnology company focused on reprogramming immune signaling pathways to redirect the immune system to fight diseases.
Dr. Khleif is a pioneer in the field of immunotherapy. He is a medical oncologist, immunologist, innovator, and entrepreneur, as well as a transformational executive in health care and biomedical research.
Prior to becoming CEO of Georgiamune, Dr. Khleif served in different academic and leadership positions. He was a National Cancer Institute (NCI)/National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientist and Chief of the NCI Cancer Vaccine Section, where he led the development of pioneering immune-oncology and cancer vaccines into clinical trials. He is currently a biomedical scholar and holds a professorship at Georgetown University Medical School.
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Global Leader in Data Movement: Fivetran’s Taylor Brown

In this episode, we speak with Taylor Brown, the Co-Founder and COO of Fivetran, a platform that helps customers use their data to power everything from AI applications and ML models, to predictive analytics and operational workloads.
In 2012, Fivetran was founded by Taylor Brown and George Fraser.  They participated in startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2013.  By responding to the needs of customers, Brown and Fraser found their product market fit in 2014 and continued to grow from there.
Today, thousands of global brands, including Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue and Morgan Stanley, trust Fivetran to move their most valuable data assets to fuel analytics, drive operational efficiencies and power innovation.
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Mastering Workforce Automation: Legion Technologies’ Sanish Mondkar

In this episode, we speak with Sanish Mondkar, the Founder and CEO of Legion Technologies, an industry-leading workforce management platform that maximizes labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously.
The Company was founded in 2016 and led by Sanish to create The Legion WFM platform. With this easy-to-use app, employers maintain efficiency and productivity while hourly employees get gig-like schedule flexibility and control, modern communication tools, and greater pay autonomy.
Sanish is the former Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President at SAP and Ariba.
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Freight Management Simplified: Loadsmart’s Felipe Capella

In this episode, we speak with Felipe Capella, the Co-Founder and CEO of Loadsmart, which leverages cutting-edge technology and industry expertise to deliver optimized, reliable, and transparent freight services and solutions.
Loadsmart was founded in 2014 and went on to gain capital backing from investors like Maersk, Ports America, TFI, CSX, BlackRock and Softbank. From day one, Felipe has been responsible for all product strategy and development.
Previously, Felipe was an attorney at Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC and before that an associate with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York.
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Bringing Efficiency To Residential Real Estate Investing: Avenue One’s Bill Martiner

In this episode, we speak with Bill Martiner, the Co-Founder and CTO of Avenue One, a technology service platform and investment marketplace for institutional owners, buyers, and sellers of residential rental real estate.
With deep experience in driving growth and innovation for the financial services industry, Bill co-created Avenue One in 2020. The company’s platform connects local experts to institutional capital, making investing in housing debt and equity more efficient for institutions, while also supporting local businesses.
With a highly impressive technical background, Bill was previously Head of Enterprise Technology at Compass, CTO at York Capital Management, a Founding Partner at VenturePM, and the Head of IT and Operations Strategy for Nomura Securities.
Bill supports Electronic Frontier Foundation. To learn more about this organization click here.
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Simplifying The Art Investing Process: Masterworks’ Scott Lynn

In this episode, we speak with the Founder and CEO of Masterworks, Scott Lynn. Specializing in the art investment market, Masterworks securitizes blue-chip artworks between $1-20 million per painting and sells shares to over 200,000 investors via their site.
Blue-chip art has historically retained its value and appreciated in times of high inflation. Masterworks was founded in 2017 by Scott to make the art market more accessible to investors.
Scott is an early Internet entrepreneur with a focus on online advertising, martech, and fintech. Over the past 15+ years, he’s founded, acquired, sold, or remained a controlling shareholder in over a dozen tech companies. Prior to Masterworks, Scott founded Payability, V2 Ventures, and Virtumundo.
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Best in Road Analytics: Cambridge Mobile Telematics’ Hari Balakrishnan

In this episode, we speak with Hari Balakrishnan, the Founder and CTO of Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s leading telematics and analytics provider for insurers, rideshares, and fleets.
CMT was founded in 2012 based on research at MIT.  It subsequently received significant backing from SoftBank Vision Fund.  CMT’s platform uses innovative mobile sensing, statistics, AI, and behavioral science to accurately measure driving quality, improve driving behavior, and help people in car crashes with real-time assistance.
Hari has been a professor at MIT since 1998.  He also co-founded StreamBase Systems, which was acquired by TIBCO.
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