This past week I sat down with Jennifer Reed, the Director of Talent Strategy at 43North. Jennifer comes from an experienced background in talent acquisition, human resources, recruiting and more! She has been in her current position with 43North for about 3 months now and is already making an impact. I asked Jennifer about her
Through out 2018 we met with different professionals in the tech, digital, and HR spaces to discuss their careers, their passion for their work, and more! In each interview we asked if there was a book, blog, or podcast that has helped them in their career and why. Check out the list and responses below!
This past week I sat down with Raj Suchak, the Founder of Cloud62 (Acquired by Huron Consulting Group), Grit Seed, and more! Raj spoke about his line of work, the companies he has built (both past and present) and shares his advice on growing yourself. How did you get started in technology? “Growing up I
This past week I met up with John Jahnke, CEO at Tackle.io. John has been the CEO for 3 months now and before that spent the last 18 years working for high tech global business to business companies including Cognizant, Pivotal, Inc, Greenplum and EMC Corporation. I sat down with John to discuss Tackle.io, his
This past Thursday (11/8), the EO Global Student Entrepreneur Awards competition took place. It was hosted at the University at Buffalo and involved six students ranging from undergrad to graduate pitching their entrepreneurial journeys and their companies. The students pitched their companies to a panel of judges and competed for prizes of first place ($7,500),
This past week I had the chance to sit down with Lena Levine, Creative Director and Owner of Lena Levine Studio and the founder of Girl Develop it Buffalo! Lena has years of experience in web design and development and has now applied her skills and talents to helping others with things like web design,
Helm Experience & Design is a Buffalo based and run company that focuses on working with companies to design and build software that solves problems. This week I had the opportunity to sit down with Jonathan Gorczyca, Co-founder and partner at Helm. Jonathan co-founded Helm in 2014 with Nicholas Barone. Since then they have continued
This past Monday I had the opportunity to sit down with Buffalo tech pioneer and innovator, Jordan Levy. For the few people that do not know, Jordan has played an integral role in developing and expanding the Buffalo tech community. Currently he is the Chairman of Synacor, a Partner with SoftBank Capital, and is on
This coming Monday (8/20) we will be meeting and interviewing Jordan Levy. For the few that do not know, Jordan has played a major role in launching and growing the Buffalo tech community. Among many positions, he is the current Chairman of Synacor, and a Board Member for notable companies like Softbank Capital, 43North, ACV
Mary Holler is the current Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Integer. She has experience in all aspects of IT, with a wide range of companies and positions along the span of her career. She has held her current position of VP and CIO for 6 years! I went over to the Integer Headquarters