Opportunity Unlocked
Join Noah Ifergan as he talks to today’s brightest minds in business. Hear the values core to their success and their mindsets through tough times. OU delivers actionable insight to unlock opportunities in your own life and career.
Tue, August 09, 2022
Appian CMO Denise Broady - Living the American Dream as a Refugee, Bringing Your Authentic Self to the Workplace, Wellness Practices
LinkedIn: Denise Broady Denise is CMO at Appian. She has over 25+ years of experience as a change agent scaling businesses from start-ups, turnarounds and complex software companies. Prior to Appian, Denise was COO at SAP and CMO/COO at WorkForce Software. She is also a two-time published author of GRC for Dummies and Driven to Perform. Denise holds a double degree in Marketing and Production and Operations from Virginia Tech. ***Have any questions or comments? Email m...
Mon, February 14, 2022
Wealthsimple Co-Founder Brett Huneycutt & VP, Engineering Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie - Securing the Largest Private Investment in Canadian History, Building the Most Diverse Engineering Team in the Country
LinkedIn: Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie, Brett Huneycutt Dominique Simoneau-Ritchie is the Vice President of Engineering at Wealthsimple. Prior to joining their executive team, she established Lever’s first R&D teams outside of San Francisco; created and grew successful teams at Shopify and Blackberry QNX; and held various roles at IBM and several startups. Brett Huneycutt is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Wealthsimple. Prior to Wealthsimple, he co-founded ph...
Mon, February 07, 2022
Snippet: Appian CRO Eric Cross - Positively Impacting Businesses With Software, The Enormous Opportunity in Appian's Addressable Market, How Appian is Shaping the Low-Code Automation Market
LinkedIn: Eric Cross Eric Cross is Chief Revenue Officer at Appian. He has 20+ years experience leading and scaling high growth go to market organizations. He brings a diverse background with organizations sub $25M to $1.5B in direct and indirect revenue models spanning a diverse set of established and emerging technology categories. Recently, he was a member of the senior leadership team leading Apigee from mid stage start up through successful IPO and eventual acquisition by Go...
Mon, February 07, 2022
Appian CRO Eric Cross - Lessons From 30 Years as a Sales Exec, Growing Up On a Farm in Northwest Georgia, How Appian is Shaping the Low-Code Automation Market
LinkedIn: Eric Cross Eric has 20+ years experience leading and scaling high growth go to market organizations. He brings a diverse background with organizations sub $25M to $1.5B in direct and indirect revenue models spanning a diverse set of established and emerging technology categories. Recently, he was a member of the senior leadership team leading Apigee from mid stage start up through successful IPO and eventual acquisition by Google. Prior, he served in various senior leade...
Tue, August 03, 2021
Co-Founder & CEO of Ada Support Inc. Mike Murchison - Starting 5 Companies, Company Growth as Byproduct of Personal Growth, Strategies for Successfully Pivoting
LinkedIn: Mike Murchison Mike Murchison is the CEO and Co-founder of Ada, a venture-back AI-powered platform that is transforming how businesses around the world, including TELUS, Zoom and AirAsia, provide customer service. Before Ada, Mike answered tens of thousands of customer service inquiries manually firsthand. Using this experience, he set out to build Ada’s platform that puts the benefits of AI into the hands of non-technical support teams to build, manage, and track ROI-dr...
Wed, July 14, 2021
Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Canada Laura Adams - The 5am Club, Practices for Physical and Mental Health, Meditation Tips
LinkedIn: Laura Adams Laura Adams is currently Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Canada. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Laura worked as a management consultant in Stockholm, Sweden and Washington, DC. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Georgia with degrees in International Business and Finance. Laura is a former NCAA All-American swimmer and has won an SEC Championship and the NCAA Woman of the Year award. She is a member of the Ticker Club, YPO and the Toronto Clu...
Tue, June 08, 2021
Co-Founder & CEO at Homewise Jesse Abrams - Building a Strong Team with Shared Confidence, Entrepreneurial Values, The Importance of Charity
LinkedIn: Jesse Abrams Recently distinguished by the American Marketing Association Hall of Legends as one of Canada’s top 5 “Marketers on the Rise” and by Marketing Magazine as a “Top 30 Under 30” Marketer in Canada, Jesse is an accomplished Digital Marketer and Advertiser who has a passion for growing businesses and never settling for the status quo. Jesse brings this passion for change and growth as the founder of Homewise, where he looks to change the face of the mortgage industry. ...
Tue, June 01, 2021
Founder & CEO of League Inc. Mike Serbinis - Exiting His Startup for $530M, Working with Elon Musk at Zip2, Creating Kobo E-Reader to Compete with Kindle, Switching from Engineer to Entrepreneur, Booming Toronto Tech Ecosystem
Socials: LinkedIn, Twitter Michael Serbinis is the founder and CEO of League. With more than $1B of exits, he is known as a visionary leader and entrepreneur who has built several transformative technology platforms across industries. Serbinis worked alongside Elon Musk at Zip2 and founded and helped build Kobo, Critical Path, DocSpace, and now League. League is North America’s leading enterprise health OS, a data-driven platform designed to provide a personalized, single access hub for...
Wed, May 26, 2021
Co-Founder of The GIST Ellen Hyslop - Creating Sports Content By Women for Women, Building Audience While Maintaining Engagement, Leap from Corporate to Startup
LinkedIn: Ellen Hyslop Ellen Hyslop is the Co-Founder of The GIST. The GIST is a sports media startup that creates sports content, experiences and community that are by women, and for all sports fans. For the last two years, The GIST has shaken up the male-dominated sports media space by creating an inclusive and accessible community for all sports fans through our irreverent, fun and female voice. Ellen is Co-Founder and Head of Content for The GIST. She is mainly responsibl...
Tue, May 18, 2021
Co-Founder & CEO of Finaeo Aly Dhalla - Never Split the Difference on Values, Value of Starting in the Corporate World, Behind the Scenes of Being an Entrepreneur
LinkedIn: Aly Dhalla Aly Dhalla is the CEO and co-founder of Finaeo, a venture-backed InsurTech startup that has built a platform to help insurance advisors win in a digital era. Finaeo's operating system provides advisors a specialized CRM, digital tool-kit and paired it with an intelligent assistant/chat-bot, Domo, to create the "Bionic Advisor". Aly spent his early career as a banker at TD before leaving to join a startup as their first employee, which was acquired by Benefits ...
Tue, May 11, 2021
Founder & CEO of Rosenzweig & Co. Jay Rosenzweig - Promoting Women through Annual Workplace Report, Creating Connections by Giving, Finding Inner Peace Through Authenticity, Human Rights Work
Socials: Instagram, LinkedIn Jay Rosenzweig is an internationally renowned social impact entrepreneur, investor, humanitarian, trained lawyer, and leadership strategist. The founder of Rosenzweig & Company, Jay is an expert in designing, building and attracting world class teams. He consults to public and private companies, including large global corporations; emerging growth to mid-sized businesses; professional services firms; and private equity and venture capital firms. He sits...
Tue, May 04, 2021
Founding Director & CEO of TREC Brands Trang Trinh - Fighting the Cannabis Stigma, Commitment to Social Impact, Launching Into Entrepreneurship With XP From Corporate World
LinkedIn: Trang Trinh Trang Trinh, one of the few female cannabis CEOs in Canada, decided to step into the cannabis scene after over a decade in the professional services world. While working in M&A consulting at Deloitte, her interest in the industry was sparked when she was sent to Jamaica to set up a vertically integrated cannabis company in Kingston for one of her clients. She eventually connected with partners Charles Khabouth and Basem Hanna to launch TREC Brands, an umbrella compa...
Tue, April 27, 2021
Co-Founder & CEO of Clearco Andrew D'Souza - Supporting Highly Diverse Founders, Revelations from Moving to Silicon Valley After Consulting, Finding a Problem You Have a Passion for Solving
LinkedIn: Andrew D'Souza Andrew D’Souza is the co-founder & CEO of Clearbanc, the biggest ecommerce investor in the world. Clearbanc has invested $1.6 billion into 4,000+ ecommerce and software companies using data science to identify high-growth funding opportunities in less than 24 hours. This data-driven approach takes the bias out of decision making and helped fund 8x more female founders than traditional VC. Andrew has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital and is...
Tue, August 04, 2020
Founder & CEO of Jackman Reinvents Joe Jackman - The Reinventionist Mindset, Businesses' Resistance to Change, Principles of Embracing Uncertainty and Seeking Insight
Joe Jackman is the Founder and CEO of Jackman Reinvents, the hybrid management consulting, design, and branding agency working with huge clients like Staples and JCPenney.Joe is a Reinventionist – a pioneer of business growth reshaping businesses back to relevance and success. From his early years as an Executive VP at Loblaws, to overseeing successful reinventions at Duane Reade, Old Navy, and Dave & Busters, Joe has guided companies to become the most powerful and relevant versions of t...
Tue, July 07, 2020
Former CEO of AutoNation, COO of USAA, CEO of 24Hour Fitness Carl Liebert - How to Evaluate Career Opportunities, Enthusiasm as a Force Multiplier of Success, Leading Companies Through Crises Like 9/11
Carl Liebert is a global business executive with more than 30 years of experience leading powerhouse organizations. He served as Executive VP and COO at USAA, the Fortune 100 company offering financial services for US military members and their families, where he led their business strategy and various subdivisions of the company which themselves drove $28 billion in annual revenue. Before his time there, Carl served as President and CEO of 24-Hour Fitness, overseeing the operations of ...
Tue, June 23, 2020
Director & General Manager at Snap Inc. Matt McGowan - Leaving Wall Street to Pursue SV Dream, Selling Startup for $60M, When to Make Career Sacrifices, Snapchat’s Secret Sauce, Social Media and Mental Health
Matt McGowan has had a multifaceted career with many accomplishments as an entrepreneur and leader in the tech world. He started his career out of university working in financial services on Wall Street at Charles Schwab. He decided the traditional financial services industry was not for him and made the decision to leave the company and join a Silicon Valley startup, Headland Digital Media. The startup was eventually sold to Pearson, after which Matt did his MBA at University of ...
Tue, June 09, 2020
Captain of Canada's Olympic Women's Softball Team Jenna Caira - Lessons from Athletics, Pride Playing for Team Canada, Battling Through Olympic Postponement News
Jenna Caira is the Captain of Canada’s Senior Women’s National Softball Team. Jenna started out at Syracuse University’s D1 Softball team in 2009, captaining the team for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. As their pitcher, she became the first player in the history of the Big East Conference to record 1000 strikeouts and the all-time leader at Syracuse for games played, wins, shutouts, and innings pitched. She was named an All-American in 2012. Jenna joined Team Canada in 2009 and has be...
Tue, June 02, 2020
President & COO of Edmonton Oilers Tom Anselmi - Journey from Engineer to Sports Exec, Vision for the ACC and Jurassic Park, Recovering from Sports Without Fans
Tom Anselmi is the President of Business Operations and COO for the NHL's Edmonton Oilers and an accomplished Canadian sports executive. He had a 17-year career at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment and served as President and COO from 2011-2013. As part of his role at MLSE, he oversaw the development of the ACC and the creation of Maple Leaf Square (also known as Jurassic Park). He then moved on to become the CEO of the Ottawa Senators until 2018. Prior to his time at MLSE, To...
Tue, May 26, 2020
CEO of Bellwether Coffee & General Fusion Nathan Gilliland - Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Spotlight on Clean Tech During Pandemic
Nathan Gilliland is a veteran entrepreneur and leader in companies where technology meets sustainability. He is currently the CEO of Bellwether Coffee, the California-based sustainable coffee company backed by investors like SolarCity founders Peter and Lyndon Rive. Nathan began his career as a management consultant at Bain and Company. He then moved into an Executive Vice President role at Bain Capital where he led new equity investments, buyouts, and growth capital initiatives during ...
Tue, May 19, 2020
Founder of BuildDirect, Author, Technology Leader Jeff Booth - Economic Inflation vs. Tech Deflation, COVID's Effect on the Building Debt Crisis, Never Before Told Stories About His Company
Jeff Booth is a visionary leader who has lived at the forefront of technology change for 20 years. He led BuildDirect, a technology company that aimed to simplify the building industry, for nearly two decades through the dot-com meltdown, the 2008 financial crisis, and many waves of technological disruption. In January 2020, Jeff released his first book titled “The Price of Tomorrow – Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future”. In it, Jeff offers his provocative thesis about the curren...
Wed, May 13, 2020
Founder & CEO of Flow Water Nicholas Reichenbach - Building a Superstar Brand, Mindful Positivity, The Opportunity in D2C, Family and Personal Wellbeing
Nicholas Reichenbach is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Flow Alkaline Spring Water, the sustainably packaged spring water company. Flow has attracted an enormous fanbase and attention from some of today’s biggest celebrities. Investors of the company include Shawn Mendes, Post Malone, Chase Utley, and Curtis Chambers and they have launched marketing campaigns with Gwyneth Paltrow and her lifestyle brand Goop. Flow closed their latest $45M funding round on May 4. N...
Sun, May 10, 2020
Senior VP at Air Canada Ferio Pugliese - The Future of the Airline Industry, Adjusting to Work from Home, Creating Culture in Personal Lives
Ferio Pugliese is Senior Vice President at Air Canada. In his role, Ferio has overall responsibility of multiple areas of the airline including the strategic direction of Air Canada’s regional operations and oversight for all relationships between the airline and various levels of government. Prior to joining Air Canada, he held Executive Vice President positions at Hydro One and WestJet. He has been recognized by Caldwell Partners as one of Canada's Top 40 under 40. As air traffi...
Thu, May 07, 2020
Managing Director at Citigroup Bill Power - Identifying Your Strengths, The Power of Positivity, Making Time for What's Important
Bill Power is a Managing Director at Citigroup and has been with the bank for over 23 years in various customer facing roles. He started and currently leads their private company access and business development efforts. In this role, he cultivates relationships with private companies and helps them initiate and manage relationships with institutional investors, venture capital firms, and other industry thought leaders. Bill previously served as Co-Head of Citi’s Institutional Equi...
Sun, May 03, 2020
Founder & CEO of TribalScale Sheetal Jaitly - Advice for Founders, Mental Health in the Workplace, Lessons from Dot Com Era, How New Grads Can Stand Out
Sheetal Jaitly is the Founder and CEO of TribalScale, the leading software design and development company based in Toronto. He is a 13 year veteran of the tech industry. He first made his mark at Xtreme Labs as the Director of Business Development for Media where he quickly expanded the media vertical and became a well-known figure in the industry. As Xtreme was acquired by Pivotal Software, he moved into the Director role for Telecommunications and then IoT. Now as CEO of TribalS...
Wed, April 29, 2020
Former CEO of Calgary Flames Ron Bremner - Axioms of Leadership, Finding Opportunity in Crisis, Taking Time for Yourself
Ron Bremner has been a nationally renowned and respected leader for more than 40 years. He started his career in broadcasting joining the top rated CKNW/CFMI team and moving up the ranks to President/General Manager. He then took the reins of BCTV as President/CEO and led his team to record profits each year. In 1996, Ron accepted the challenging role of President/CEO of the NHL's Calgary Flames and the Saddledome facility. Season tickets and the Canadian dollar were both at an all-time...
Sun, April 26, 2020
Former CEO of Tim Hortons & Vice Chairman of RBI Marc Caira - Leadership During Crisis, Supporting Front Line Workers, Motivation in Isolation
On this episode, we speak with Marc Caira. Marc is the Vice Chairman on the Board of Restaurant Brands International, the parent company of Tim Hortons, Burger King and Popeye’s Louisiana Chicken. He is formerly the President and CEO of Tim Hortons Inc., where he led the company during their $12.5 billion merger with Burger King in 2014. He also serves on the board of Gildan (active-wear manufacturer), Minto Homes (leading real-estate developer), and Toronto General and Western Hospital...
Mon, April 20, 2020
Introducing Opportunity Unlocked
Opportunity Unlocked hosted by Noah Ifergan is an exciting new podcast hosting discussions with today’s top business leaders about opportunities for personal and professional growth during the CV-19 pandemic. Spreading a positive message in the midst of tough times, we explore the most pressing questions of today’s environment: How can we be strong leaders during this crisis? How can we seek out new business opportunities? How can we motivate ourselves in isolation? How can we effective...
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