Interviews
Nathalie Parent, Chief People Officer at Shift Technology: “HR is the conscience of an organisation”
For more than 30 years, Nathalie Parent has led global HR teams, working primarily with software companies. Today she's Chief People Officer at Shift Technology
Echo Sandburg, Chief Brand Officer for CP Skin Health Group US: “Marketing in today’s environment requires us to be courageous”
Echo Sandburg, Chief Brand Officer for CP Skin Health Group US, is responsible for brand experiences for EltaMD, PCA SKIN & Filorga. We had the pleasure of speaking to her as part of our Dust or Magic series.
Carla Read, Head of People at Desana: “We work with humans and that requires a human approach, not a textbook approach”
Carla Read is Head of People at Desana, which powers the hybrid workplace experience for global companies. Here's her 'Coffee with HR' interview.
Natalia Shahmetova, CMO at Woofz: “AI has helped Marketers take a qualitative step forward”
Natalia Shahmetova is the CMO of Woofz, a pet tech app that she co-founded as a sub-brand of Gismart, a developer and publisher of games and entertainment apps.
Carolyne Mwaura, Global Head of People at Wasoko: “Prepare for all meetings whether big or small, and know your stuff!”
Carolyne has over 18 years of experience as an HR professional, originally working in the USA for ten years before returning home to Kenya. And now she's responsible for a 1,000-strong workforce that stretches across Africa and India...
Meri Kokotova, CMO at TBM Group: “Martech is being disrupted on a daily basis — it’s always better to be a leader than a follower”
Meri Kokotova is a Partner & CMO at TBM Group. We had the pleasure of interviewing her on all things Martech.
Melissa Johnston, Director of L&D at First Orion: “Everything you experience in life teaches you something”
Melissa Johnston is the Director of L&D (Learning and Development) at First Orion. We spoke to her as part of our Coffee with HR series.
Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland author: “Our recycling system is broken, but that doesn’t mean we can’t fix it”
Our sustainability guru Lee Grant interviews Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of Wasteland, to find out what we can all do to help the environment - and what we shouldn't do.
Michael Cockburn, CEO at Desana: “No matter what you do, get a great accountant!”
Michael is Co-Founder and CEO of Desana, which powers the hybrid workplace experience for companies such as Dropbox, GitHub and Elastic. Michael has scaled the company to over 66 countries, raising $11 million in funding. Here's his story.
Michelle Brooks, Chief People & Culture Officer at Security Compass: “Organisations need to transition from evaluating performance based on time spent in-office to more focus on results”
Michelle Brooks is the Chief People & Culture Officer at Security Compass, a software security firm headquartered in Toronto. We spoke with her as part of our Coffee with HR series.
Bernard Huang, Co-Founder at Clearscope: “Stop overthinking things and just launch!”
We interview Bernard Huang, Co-Founder at Clearscope, an SEO platform that serves companies including Adobe, HubSpot and Nvidia.
Lisa Skinner Källström, CHRO at Teamtailor: “It’s hard to replace the magic that happens from interacting with colleagues”
As CHRO, Lisa Skinner Källström leads the HR team at Teamtailor, a Swedish-founded SaaS company with 300 employees across the globe. We spoke to her as part of our Coffee with HR series.
Nia Castelly, Co-Founder and Legal Lead, Checks: “Don’t cut corners early on if it may come back to bite you later”
We interview Nia Castelly, the Co-Founder and Legal Lead for Checks, a privacy platform from Google that leverages AI to help simplify privacy compliance for mobile app developers.
How a Kickstarter campaign raised $3 million for a printer: exclusive interview with Kevin Wang, CMO of ELEGOO at Formnext 2023
We caught up with Kevin Wang, Co-Founder and CMO of ELEGOO, and asked him a few questions about the company, Kickstarter and what lies ahead. Here's his interview.
Maria Loumpourdi, Betsson Group: “There is no universal, one-size-fits-all formula to managing talent effectively”
We interview Maria Loumpourdi, the Global Head of Talent Development at Betsson Group, designing and executing talent development and management strategies across the Group’s 16 global locations.
Kim Nortman CEO of Astral: “If you think something is not quite right, pull the thread”
Kim Nortman has spent her career at the intersection of technology and creativity. She is the CEO and co-founder of Astral, an AI-enabled tool that transforms an expert’s content library into a learning co-pilot. Here's her interview as part of our TakeOff series.
Deb LaMere, Chief HR Officer at Datasite: “Consistently improving company culture will continue to be a top organisational priority”
Deb LaMere is the Chief HR Officer at Datasite, a leading SaaS-technology provider for the mergers and acquisition (M&A) industry. Here's her interview as part of our Coffee with HR series
Omri Gazitt, CEO of Aserto: “Authorisation is going to be the next multi-billion dollar segment at the intersection of developer, infrastructure and security”
Omri Gazitt is the CEO of Aserto. In a career spanning more than 30 years, he's been CPO at Puppet as well as VP and GM at both HP and Microsoft. Here's his interview.
Tom Ferland, VP of HR at IQGeo: “It is not cost-effective to pay for space to handle all staff all the time”
Tom Ferland is the VP HR at IQGeo. In this interview he shares insights from his 25 years of Human Resource experience supporting global software companies.
Dharmendra Mohan, CEO of Sonet.io: “IT teams are still burdened with legacy tools that don’t match the modern workforce requirements”
A former BlueCoat and Symantec Director of Engineering, Dharmendra Mohan co-founded and is now CEO of Sonet.io. He told us his story as part of our TakeOff interview series.