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HRTech Weekly with Stacey Harris and John Sumser: #181 | August 2, 2018 7AM PDT

Goutham Kurra is the chief product officer and co-founder of Glint. Most recently, Goutham founded Rock Paper Labs where he created a software platform that helps glean meaningful insights hidden in large amounts of raw data. Prior to that, at Turn Inc., he helped pioneer the algorithmic, real-time bidding revolution that has transformed how advertising works online. Earlier, at Kazeon (acquired by EMC), he helped build one of the first eDiscovery products in the market. Goutham has spent the last 15 years creating innovative products and technology across advertising, data science, machine learning, robotics, enterprise search, and virtual computing.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7AM Pacific – 10AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Regina Viadro is a technology services professional with over 18 years of high-paced consulting experience and orchestration skills. Regina is responsible for EPAM's business portfolio across the NYC Metro area, South East and Midwest, owning the accountability for client satisfaction, delivery health and P&L metrics, while managing complex, globally-distributed engagements. She also serves as an Adviser to the Intelligent Automation Practice, and leads RPA and other Intelligent Automation services and implementations. Prior to EPAM, Regina worked at G2X/Navagate, a CRM-focused product company, for six years where she was responsible for product management and client management functions. Regina is based in the NYC area. She is passionate about traveling and raising her four kids. 

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Richard Milam, CEO and founder of EnableSoft is a pioneer in the Robotic Process Automation technology movement, Richard Milam brought a revolutionary operational efficiency solution to organizations worldwide with his conception of Foxtrot, EnableSoft, Inc.’s flagship product. Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, he worked for the inventor of the ATM as an implementer of ATM networks around the world, held sales and consulting positions for several of the largest banking software companies, and served in the United States Navy as a nuclear-trained engineer in the Navy’s submarine service.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7AM Pacific – 10AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Jodi is the Head of Product at SHL. Global responsibility for end to end product development lifecycle for assessment products used by Fortune 500 companies to assess and development talent. Functional leadership responsibilities include Product Management, R&D, Product Development and Alliances/Partnership with distributed teams across the US and Europe. With over 20 years of experience in digital technology, analytics and product management, Jodi has worked at both start-up and established firms including comScore, USA TODAY, Visual Sciences (acquired by Adobe) and AddThis (acquired by Oracle). She is passionate about building technology products with a strong emphasis of using data to drive user experience, design and the product development process. She is an active member of NextGen Venture Partners Washington, DC chapter, an entrepreneur friendly venture group specializing in seed and Series A funding in the DC start-up space and also sits on the American University Kogod Business School Informatio

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Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7AM Pacific – 10AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Jonathan “JD” Duarte, is a veteran CEO and Founder in the HR Tech industry, having started GoJobs.com, one of the first job boards, in 1996, when dial-up modems and fax machines were considered “high-tech”. Over the last 22 years, JD has built recruiting software companies across the spectrum, from recruitment marketing solutions for Fortune 10 companies, to high- growth background screening companies focused on the small business markets. His most recent company is GoHire.com, where they’re building universal messaging and chatbot solutions to help employers acquire, engage, and communicate with candidates and employees across multiple messaging platforms, like text messaging, Facebook Messenger, web chat.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7AM Pacific – 10AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Devin Cook is the Executive Producer of the Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC). Launched under Devin’s leadership at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, the IIC awards over $1.5 million to technology-driven organizations globally that are reinventing the future of work and creating a more equitable economy in the digital age.   Devin’s expertise lies in accelerating entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems for economic growth.  As a Fulbright Scholar, she researched how entrepreneurship drives economic opportunity among textile artisans in India.  She has conducted research and theory development alongside leading innovation and entrepreneurship faculty at MIT. Devin was an early employee at multiple start-ups, has mentored over 100 start-up founders, and currently teaches entrepreneurial strategy at accelerators nationwide. She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was awarded the Ronald I. Heller Award for her contribution to entrepreneurship education on campus, a

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7AM Pacific – 10AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Ankit Somani is the co-founder of AllyO, creator of AI recruiter Ally. Prior to founding AllyO, Ankit worked as a Product Manager at Google on the growth team of Google For Work, as well as a senior engineer on the data center research and development team. He also worked at Oracle as a data center architect and program manager. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2007 with a degree in mechanical engineering, and received his Master's in Thermal-Fluid Sciences and Economic Decision Analysis from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7AM Pacific – 10AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.

Joe is the founder and CEO of ENGAGE Talent, the world’s first AI-powered platform to combine Talent Mapping, Competitive Intelligence, Passive Candidate Sourcing, and Outbound Recruiting in one brilliant Candidate Identification and Engagement engine.  Joe has over 25 years of global experience in enterprise applications, analytics, and SaaS. Joe has established and successfully led the growth of a number of businesses with large companies including Oracle and CSC in addition to startups and small firms including OneNeck, Tenzing, and Angoss.  He holds an MBA degree from Duke University where he was named a Fuqua Scholar.  Joe is also a competitive sailor who enjoys long range ocean races and offshore navigation.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7AM Pacific – 10AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.  

Matt founded Ascendify to help visionary talent leaders at global companies simplify their complex talent management and recruiting systems. Matt brings 25-years of enterprise product leadership within the human capital industry to Ascendify. He started his career as the founder of ResumeMaker Workforce Solutions, a market-leading cloud platform that earned several patents and numerous HR awards for reimagining the candidate’s experience.

Hosts Stacey Harris and John Sumser discuss important news and topics in recruiting and HR technology. Listen live every Thursday at 7AM Pacific – 10AM Eastern, or catch up on full episodes with show transcripts here.