AGL 354: Hannah Ryu and Veronica Shelton
About Hannah and Veronica
Today We Talked About
- Hannah's background
- Veronica's background
- AI
- Diversity in Design
- Leadership
- Creativity
- Solving Problems
- Showing up
- Data-Driven UI/UX
- UI/UX
- Ecosphere
Vitaly is the Chief Business Development Officer of the global Adtech video platform for publishers Viqeo. During his career, he managed to work with Google, META, Amazon Ads as well as the largest publishers & advertisers. He is also an Investor, Limited Partner at True Global Ventures (16+ projects). Vitaly has 15+ years of experience in AdTech, MarTech and project oversight, and 5+ years of experience in mentoring startups in AdTech and unit economics.
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Sean Falconer has a lofty goal: to make the digital economy safer. And he's doing so one API at a time. A former competitive programmer, entrepreneur, and expert storyteller, his many accomplishments include designing the software used to create ICD-11 at the World Health Organization, founding Proven.com, and leading developer relations teams at Google. When he's not interviewing industry insiders as one of the hosts of the popular Software Engineering Daily podcast or diving into all things data security and privacy on Partially Redacted, you can find this world-class tech talent serving as Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow, the world's first and only data privacy vault delivered as an API.
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Lisa Nestor, a seasoned strategist in the financial services industry, is the Chief of Strategy at Airtm, an innovative online platform that provides financial services to people around the world. With her guidance, Airtm has facilitated over 26M transactions and helped hundreds of thousands of individuals access financial markets.
Passionate about building solutions that empower individuals by improving their financial capabilities, Lisa believes that everyone should have access to the tools they need to manage their finances effectively and participate in the global economy. Lisa has a strong background in digital assets, payments, and ecosystem development. An early employee of the Stellar Development Foundation, she led partnerships and ecosystem strategy from 2016 – 2020. She has played a crucial role in Airtm's success and has been instrumental in creating a platform that offers low fees and quick transaction times for users.
Lisa Nestor's dedication to empowering individuals and improving financial markets has helped to make Airtm a leader in the online financial services space, and her insights and expertise will undoubtedly continue to shape the industry.
Nick is the Founder and CTO of Dagster Labs, the company behind Dagster, a popular open-source data orchestration platform. Before Dagster Labs, he was a Principal Engineer and Director at Facebook from 2009 to 2017, where he founded the Product Infrastructure team and co-created GraphQL.
After cutting his teeth at Facebook, he pursued his passion for working on engineer pain points after hearing that data infrastructure was a big issue. He founded Dagster to address this issue, highlighting how quickly open-source projects were able to make an impact at legacy companies.
Dagster couldn’t come at a more critical time as data and ML engineering are beginning to drive both human and business decision-making.
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Debbie Levitt, MBA, is the CXO of Delta CX, and since the mid-1990s has been a CX and UX consultant focused on strategy, research, training, and Human-Centered Design/User-Centered Design. She’s a change agent and business design consultant focused on helping companies of all sizes transform towards customer-centricity while using principles of Agile and Lean.
She has worked in various CX and UX leadership and individual contributor roles at companies including Wells Fargo, Macy’s, StepStone, Sony Mobile, and Constant Contact. In the 2010s, San Francisco UX and marketing agencies had Debbie on speed dial. She completed projects for Traction, Fjord, LIFT, Rauxa, ROI·DNA, and Fiddlehead.
Clients have given her the nickname, “Mary Poppins,” because she flies in, improves everything she can, sings a few songs, and flies away to her next adventure.
Her new book, “Customers Know You Suck,” (2022) is the customer-centricity how-to manual. Start investigating what’s holding you back from improving customer-centricity. Learn how to be value-led: how much value we can frequently create for potential and current customers.
Outside of CX work, and sometimes during CX work, Debbie enjoys singing symphonic prog goth metal, opera, and New Wave. You can also catch her on the Delta CX YouTube channel.
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Tom Bairstow is a Creative Director, Designer & Founder of NorthHouse, a multi-award-winning creative studio focused on video & digital design for music, brands and live shows.
NorthHouse are globally recognized as a leading studio within the music and live events industry, working with the likes of Coldplay, Beyoncé, Adele, Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes, Lewis Capaldi, Ferrari, GQ, BAFTA, The NFL SuperBowl Half-time Show, The UEFA Euro's, The Rugby World Cup, and many more.
Most recently they projection mapped Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Jubilee and are currently working on shows globally.
Tom grew up in Bradford, West Yorkshire, attending Bradford Grammar School, Bradford Art College and Leeds Metropolitan Uni, graduating in 2008 with a BA Hons in Graphic Art & Design where he specialized in moving-image.
He pursued a career in music, playing in touring bands between 2006 - 2009 whilst developing a portfolio as a freelance video director and designer, creating live music visuals, music videos and event films.
In 2010, he moved to London to continue his freelance video work, which gradually progressed into Tom founding NorthHouse in 2012.
NorthHouse have gradually grown as a team over the years, beginning with just one employee in a tiny South London studio beneath a railway arch, into the global creative studio it is today with its UK studio in the heart of London Bridge.
Tom is passionate about creative business and helping people to find a path within the creative industry. He is a creative mentor, the ambassador for media at Big Creative Education College, London and gives talks to schools and Universities around the UK.
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Jon Perl is the co-founder and CEO of QA Wolf, a startup building the QA solution every engineering leader wishes for. Prior to QA Wolf, Perl led engineering teams in the healthcare and home services space, where he learned firsthand how difficult automated regression testing can be — and how critical it is for teams to have. His interest in software engineering comes from an overarching desire to eliminate boring, repetitive tasks and give people their time back. He has a dog named Finn and enjoys hiking.
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As a first-generation American born to parents of Caribbean descent, Kasheef attributes the alignment of his career and purpose to interventions and exposure to educational resources far outside of the community that raised him. With such a dichotomy between the two worlds he grew to know, an unshakeable commitment to be on the frontline of change was born. As the National Director of Dream.Org's tech program, Kasheef is responsible for the integrity of tech programs, trainings, and materials, ensuring that all offerings align with the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
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With over two decades of immersive experience in executive development, corporate leadership and human performance, Jim Bishop stands as a beacon of transformative leadership through his business, Conjunction Leadership. Jim's journey has taken him across the globe, coaching executives, diverse teams and orchestrating the modernization of leadership systems for transforming business units. Having collaborated with industry giants like Eli Lilly, Roche, and Elanco, Jim recognized the pivotal role of a visionary leader willing to first work on
themselves while revitalizing their culture.
This catalyzed the birth of Conjunction Leadership in 2020, where Jim provides executive coaching and team development solutions. As a certified coach by the International Coaching Federation and a Certified Leadership Facilitator with Blanchard, Jim's methods are a blend of science and art. He empowers executives through executive coaching, corporate culture consulting, and team effectiveness programs, focusing on holistic development within volatile contexts. At Conjunction Leadership, transformation starts within. The exclusive DISRUPT, BRIDGE, and GROW process guides leaders on a journey of self-discovery, mindset shifts, and measurable growth.
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Robert Plotkin is a leading expert in leveraging Al to maximize creativity and innovation. His book, The Genie in the Machine, was the first (and still the only) work to address the impact of generative Al on innovation and the patent system. Recognized as a thought leader in human-Al collaboration, Robert empowers individuals with the essential skills they need to harness Al to supercharge their creative abilities. He addresses the common fear of Al replacement by illustrating how embracing Al allows creatives to concentrate on high-level ideation, strategy, and problem-solving, while relegating the routine details to Al.
Having a rare, combined expertise as an MIT-educated computer scientist, an educator, and a seasoned patent attorney, Robert boasts over 25 years of specialized experience in guiding leading tech companies in securing intellectual property protection for their cutting-edge Al innovations. Robert is also an adept communicator, hosting nearly 100 podcast episodes and being a frequent podcast guest on the topic of Al-fueled innovation.
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Jon studied Human Sciences at Oxford University, then stepped sideways into business where he worked in information systems as an applications architect, becoming European IT Director for a market-leading multinational. This career continued with consultant program leadership roles in major UK companies such as British Airways, BAA, Vodafone and O2. In parallel he continued to study science and human systems, publishing well-regarded and ground-breaking books "The Science of Possibility" and "Reinventing Capitalism".
Jon is a generalist in an age of specialists, an out-of-the-box thinker, an expert in mindsets, emotional and spiritual intelligence, systemic perspectives and living-systems approaches. Now, blending his experience across human behavior and business organizations, he is regarded as a world-class trainer and leader in the socio-psychological development theory known as Spiral Dynamics integral. He is a Director of the leading-edge organizational development consultancy Future Considerations, working recently with Philips, Arup and Shell. He is also a leadership and personal development coach and mentor, and an accredited SQ21 spiritual intelligence coach. Jon has published books on science and spirituality (The Science of Possibility) on our money systems and relationships with money (Reinventing Capitalism) and a spiral-inspired book "7-stage parenting". For many years he has also been on the Trustee board of a charity providing care and education, officially rated "outstanding", to young people with special needs.
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Marga Hoek is a three-time CEO, Chair, and Board Member. Due to her visionary, purpose-driven leadership, Hoek has gained recognition over the years as a global thought leader on sustainable business and capital. She is a multi-golden-awarded bestselling author of the trailblazing titles New Economy Business (2014) and The Trillion Dollar Shift (2018). Fortune praised The Trillion Dollar Shift, which highlights opportunities the UN's Global Goals hold for business, as "required reading." Recognized by Thinkers50 for her global management thinking, Marga Hoek coined the slogan "Business for Good" in 2014 to emphasize her mission "to make Business for Good the norm, rather than the exception.
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Ryan Glasgow is the founder and CEO of Sprig. Sprig is the leading product experience insights platform and works with high-growth companies including Figma, Notion, Loom, and Dropbox.
Prior to starting the company, Ryan was Product Manager and early team member at five different companies that he helped scale from startup to successful exit, including Weebly, which was acquired by Square, and Vurb, which was acquired by Snapchat.
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Ahmed is an experienced engineering leader, having led teams at Microsoft, Amazon and Google. He is currently leading Cloud teams at Google. In addition to his day job, Ahmed also helps engineering managers become effective leaders through his coaching.
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An entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, coach, mentor, and public speaker. The founder of G2A.COM, the largest and most dynamically developing global marketplace with vouchers for digital products such as games, gift cards, subscriptions, or software. The marketplace already has had over 25 million users from 180 countries around the world.
A winner of the Forbes magazine's BrandMe CEO award given to the best CEOs in the country, as well as of the Digital Shaper Award, the Gold Medal of Polish Academy of Success, and the Manager of the Year title awarded by the government of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship where G2A.COM began its journey. He's also a co-founder and member of many business organizations such as the International Leaders Forum, Google Next Gen CEO Club, Facebook Client Advisory Board, and the Polish Council of Global Businessmen. Speaker for business events such as The Economic Forum, Merchants Payment Ecosystem Conference in Berlin, MIT in Boston, or Gamescom in Cologne.
Graduate of the AGH University of Krakow and the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, as well as Executive Education programs on Harvard (Finance), MIT (IT, Blockchain, Platformization, Productivity), and Oxford (Fintech).
He also actively participates in society – he initiated the creation of the działajmyrazem.pl platform for organizing aid for Ukraine, with several dozen companies joining in solidarity. He's involved in the SaveTheChildren program and supports local orphanages. Privately, he loves animals and is a fan of tennis.
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Tap is a seasoned leader with 25+ years of experience leading strategy, technology, business, marketing, and corporate development at worldwide technology companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100. He is passionate about developing and leading cross-functional teams to achieve bold goals on a global scale.
Currently, Tap is VP of Strategic Initiatives. In this role, he designs and implements key initiatives to build and execute AWS growth strategy. Tap leads strategic planning and provides thought leadership to AWS senior executives. He also works with AWS senior leadership to evolve AWS' long-term vision and operational plan, including assessing current strategy, designing optimized solutions, and supporting implementation across the organization.
Prior to leading Strategic Initiatives, Tap ran the Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) that builds and executes go-to-market strategies for AWS' multibillion dollar businesses. Under his leadership, the team tripled in size and AWS revenue grew significantly from $41B ARR in 2020 to $85B ARR in 2023. Prior to WWSO, Tap led AWS Game Tech, a vertical strategy that spanned AWS Services, Sales, Solutions Architecture, Business Development, and Marketing. Tap led this team for 3 years and under his leadership, the team doubled the games industry revenue.
Before AWS, Tap was the CEO of Bitcasa, a venture-backed cloud file system services company built entirely on AWS. Under his leadership, the company grew the data under their management to over 30 PB, with users in 120+ countries. Bitcasa was sold to Intel at the end of 2016. Prior to Bitcasa, Tap has also held senior executive positions in Business Development and General Management at Zynga, BitTorrent, and Electronic Arts. Tap also spent some time in finance and worked at both Doll Capital Management and Allen & Company.
Tap received a BA from Williams College and a MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management, with a focus on Entrepreneurship/ Entrepreneurial Studies.
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Kyle Kiser is Chief Executive Officer at Arrive Health, the leader in delivering real-time cost and coverage data to decision-making workflows. In this role, he focuses on helping providers and care teams improve patient access, affordability, and outcomes while reducing administrative burden. By partnering with health systems, health plans, IT vendors, and pharmacy benefit managers, Arrive Health enables transparency and better patient care nationwide.
Since 2013, Kyle has helped grow the company from a vision to a reality, and has been at the forefront of some of the most transformational initiatives in healthcare. In particular, he has focused on projects that lower the cost of care, improve adherence, and enable informed decisionmaking. His focus on interoperability has allowed partners to improve provider workflows and reduce medication costs for millions of patients. Kyle has helped develop incentive strategies for the countryʼs most innovative employers and led product launches with the nationʼs largest payers. Prior to Arrive Health, he was a senior leader at Welltok, Catapult Health, and Principal Wellness Company.
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D.J. Eshelman has more than 25 years of overall IT experience, but it was in 2004 when he found Citrix Systems that his career became truly focused. While this still requires skillsets beyond the delivery, Citrix technologies have been the central point of focus ever since. He is the author of two books released in 2020, “Be a Citrix Hero” and “Just Do THIS: A Simpler Way to Succeed in I.T.” as well as blog sites ctxpro.com and thrive-it.com.
He is the host of the “THRIVE-IT” YouTube channel and the popular “THRIVEcast” show, interviewing leaders in I.T. Mr. Eshelman has proven himself as an expert in the industry. He was recognized as one of 50 Citrix Technology Advocates (CTA) worldwide in 2017. He has served Citrix Consulting Services since 2011 as an ad-hoc or resident senior consultant/architect. He has on behalf of his companies BOT Consulting and THRIVE-IT.com guided multiple Citrix Platinum partners in the technology while serving customers independently and with white-label services. In everything D.J. does, he is on a mission to Leave the World Better Than He Found It – and Inspire Others to do the same.
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