Calavista Conversations

In this episode of Calavista Conversations, Sloan Foster interviews Valkyrie Founder & CEO, Charlie Burgoyne. Valkyrie is an Austin-based company that fuses applied science with strategy consulting, optimizing and transforming businesses. Valkyrie helps their clients make the right decisions, crack the right initiatives, and answer the right questions through applied science.

Sloan Foster interviews Co-Founder and CEO of Living Security, Ashley Rose to discuss the value of making training part of company culture to mitigate cyber risk. Living Security has created a gamification platform to train organizations to be more aware of ways companies can be hacked from phishing expeditions to simple password policies. Living Security specializes in metric driven and engaging security awareness solutions that reduce risk by increasing security culture and changing employee behavior. Learn more about Living Security here Follow Living Security on Twitter Follow Living Security on Linkedin Podcast Transcript as follows: Sloan Foster: 00:32 Hello and welcome to Calavista Conversations with Living Security. Today we have Ashley Rose, Founder, and CEO of Living Security. Ashley is a serial entrepreneur. She was the former Founder of Bella Bear Wear swimwear for girls that she successfully launched through Kickstarter. She has experience in product design, development and launch marketing, sale

Globalization continues to open up opportunities for organizations to increase efficiency and drive productivity by executing projects remotely and working with geographically distributed teams. This is no more apparent in any part of the business than in the area of Information Technology (IT). Information technology groups are consistently executing projects in multiple geographical locations, both within the organization and externally with vendors and partners around the world. Full Podcast Transcript: Sloan Foster: 00:32 Hello and welcome to Calavista Conversations! Today we have experts at outsourcing Russ Finny, principal ITMWeb, and Lawrence managing partner of Calavista. Russ Finny is an advisory partner in research, and are currently serving clients through both the ITMWeb Group and the Stratamation Network. He also assists startup communities all over the world through various entrepreneur programs at the Tech Ranch. He's a former CIO, and in 2016 Russ was named by the Apollo Research as one of the

Full Podcast Transcript: Sloan Foster: Hello everybody. Welcome to the first edition of Calavista Conversations. I'm Sloan Foster, CMO at Calavista and today we have a friend of mine, Jeanne Teshler in our studio, who has a young tech company focused on healthcare. We've known each other for quite a while and [I’m] excited to hear what her new adventure is today. So, Jeanne, welcome and why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself? Jeanne Teshler: Well, thanks, Sloan. It's good to see you again and be in the studio with you. I sure appreciate this time. My name is Jeanne Teshler, I’m the CEO of a young tech company called Wellsmith. Just for a little bit of a background before we get into what we're doing here. My husband and I are the founding partners of Wellsmith, and he and I have been in business together for as long as we've been married, so a good quarter of a century now. We have worked in a variety of different businesses, always entrepreneurial in how we do things. But we've run many companies,