- DisrupTV
DisrupTV is a weekly podcast with hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. The audience can expect A-list guests, the latest enterprise news, hot startups, insight from influencers, and much more. Tweet questions to #DisrupTV or @DisrupTVShow. We broadcast live on StreamYard.
Show Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConstellationR
Featured Guests:
George Mathew
Managing Director
Insight Partners
George Mathew is a Managing Director at Insight Partners, where he focuses on venture stage investments in AI, ML, Analytics, and Data companies as they are establishing product/market Fit.
He brings 20+ years of experience developing high-growth technology startups including most recently being CEO of Kespry. Prior to Kespry, George was President & COO of Alteryx where he scaled the company through its IPO (AYX). Previously he held senior leadership positions at SAP and salesforce.com. He has driven company strategy, led product management and development, and built sales and marketing teams.
George holds a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from Cornell University and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar.
Twitter: @gkm1
Laura Urquizu Barasoain
CEO & President
RedPoints
Laura Urquizu, CEO and President of Red Points, a solution against online fraud such as counterfeiting, brand impersonation, gray market, software and content piracy, and other Internet infringements. During her 10-year leadership, Red Points has become one of the most recognized scaleups in Europe, earning the Future Unicorn Award 2023 by Digital Europe.
For two consecutive years, in 2018 and 2019, Laura was included among the "50 Most Influential Women Entrepreneurs and Investors in the European Tech Industry" by EU-Start-Ups. In 2020, Forbes and Business Insider recognized her as one of the most relevant global business leaders, and in 2021 she was named among the top 50 CEO‘s for SaaS companies worldwide.
Previously, Laura Urquizu held executive and management positions at Arthur Andersen, Caja Navarra, and CAN Corporation. She has also served on numerous Boards of Directors of European technology startups and advised several investment groups in technology companies.
Twitter: @Lurquizu
William Ury
Author of Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict
William Ury is one of the world’s best-known experts on negotiation, and the co-author of Getting to Yes, the world’s all-time bestselling book on negotiation with more than 15 million copies sold. A co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation, Ury has devoted his life to helping people, organizations, and nations transform conflicts around the world, having served as a negotiator in many of the toughest disputes of our times, taught negotiation to tens of thousands, and consulted for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon. He has served as a negotiation adviser and mediator in conflicts ranging from Kentucky wildcat coal mine strikes to family feuds, from US partisan battles to wars in the Middle East, Colombia, Korea, and Ukraine. Ury is an internationally sought-after speaker and has two popular TEDx talks with millions of viewers. He lives in Colorado where he loves to hike in the mountains.
Twitter: @WilliamUryGTY
