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Datacast Episode 99: Data Mobility, Enterprise GTM, and Tech Leadership with Gary Hagmueller

Datacast Episode 99: Data Mobility, Enterprise GTM, and Tech Leadership with Gary Hagmueller

Gary Hagmueller is CEO of Arcion Labs, Inc., the only cloud-native, zero-code data mobility platform that allows enterprises to build high-performance, real-time data pipelines in seconds. He brings 20+ years of tech industry leadership experience and has generated nearly $8B in enterprise value through two IPOs and four M&A exits. He holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, where he was named Sheth Fellow, and a bachelor’s in Business Administration from Arizona State University.

Datacast Episode 94: Modern Metadata Management, Open-Source Adoption, and Early-Stage Culture with Mars Lan

Datacast Episode 94: Modern Metadata Management, Open-Source Adoption, and Early-Stage Culture with Mars Lan

Mars Lan is the co-founder and CTO of Metaphor Data, a startup that offers a Modern Metadata Platform to solve many complex organizational data challenges, such as data discovery and data governance. He also co-created the popular open-source project DataHub while working as the Tech Lead of the metadata team at LinkedIn. Mars received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Datacast Episode 90: Operational Analytics, Reverse ETL, and Finding Product-Market Fit with Kashish Gupta

Datacast Episode 90: Operational Analytics, Reverse ETL, and Finding Product-Market Fit with Kashish Gupta

Kashish Gupta is the founder and co-CEO of Hightouch, a data startup based out of San Francisco. He grew up in Atlanta, loves playing racket sports, and always wanted to be an inventor when he grew up. He studied Machine Learning in college and had a short stint at a VC firm called Bessemer Venture Partners, and ever since graduating has been working on Startups. He and his co-founders are on their 5th business idea and have finally found a product-market fit.

Datacast Episode 87: Product Experimentation, ML Platforms, and Metrics Store with Nick Handel

Datacast Episode 87: Product Experimentation, ML Platforms, and Metrics Store with Nick Handel

Nick Handel is Transform's CEO and Co-Founder. Before Transform, Nick was Head of Data at Branch International in the micro-lending space.

Before Branch, Nick held a variety of roles at Airbnb, both as a Data Scientist & Product Manager. He was on the Growth team that founded the Experiences product and the Data Platform team. His work includes launching Airbnb's ML platform, Zipline, building the company's data science team, helping with the company's initial international expansion, and leading the data science team that launched Airbnb's Trips product.

Before joining Airbnb, Nick was a research economist at BlackRock. He is an avid trail runner, climber, skier, and adventurer, much of the time with his dog Huckleberry.

Datacast Episode 86: Risk Management, Open-Source Governance, and Negative Engineering with Jeremiah Lowin

Datacast Episode 86: Risk Management, Open-Source Governance, and Negative Engineering with Jeremiah Lowin

Jeremiah Lowin is the Founder & CEO of Prefect, a dataflow automation company. Before starting Prefect, Jeremiah gained extensive experience in all aspects of the modern data stack as a director of risk management, machine learning researcher, and data scientist at a number of institutional investment firms. Today, he lives with his wife and two sons in Washington, DC.

Datacast Episode 85: Ad Exchange, Stream Processing, and Data Discovery with Shinji Kim

Datacast Episode 85: Ad Exchange, Stream Processing, and Data Discovery with Shinji Kim

Shinji Kim is the Founder & CEO of Select Star, an intelligent data discovery platform that helps you understand your data. Previously, she was the CEO of Concord Systems, an NYC-based data infrastructure startup acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2016. She led the development of Akamai’s Internet-of-Things data platform for real-time messaging, log processing, and edge computing.

Prior to Concord, Shinji was the first Product Manager hired at Yieldmo, where she led the Ad Format Lab, A/B testing, and yield optimization. Before Yieldmo, she analyzed data and built enterprise applications at Deloitte Consulting, Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and Barclays Capital.

Shinji studied Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo and General Management at Stanford GSB. She also advises early-stage startups on product strategy, customer development, and company building.