Semir Jahic is a Senior Manager, Sales Engineering & Operations at Clari. In this episode we chat about his life and career path: growing up in a small village in central Switzerland, landing a job at Accenture, discovering sales engineering, his time at Salesforce, and landing a job at the hypergrowth start up Clari through a cold message to the CEO.

Patricia is a Industry Solution Manager at Scandit. In this episode we chat about her career path, from highly theoretical Electrical Engineering courses at ETH Zurich, to her current role deliver tailored solutions to the transport, logistics, and travel industries.

Jennine Heller is an executive coach who works with senior managers on being the most effective leaders they can be. In this episode we chat about her career path, from stumbling into studying CS, to starting (then selling) a company with no business experience, to finding her calling as a coach.

Andy Raskin is a consultant who works with the CEOs of tech companies on aligning their teams around a strategic narrative. In this episode we chat about the truly wide range of roles he's held, from software engineer and management consultant, to magazine writer and Japanese TV coordinator.

Jon is Group Vice President, Industry Marketing at Oracle. From surviving the first dot-com boom to finding his sweet spot in enterprise software, Jon has had an impressive career in tech. We chat about a range of topics: what was it like being a PM in the early days of Azure? how did he capitalize on internal promotion opportunities at Splunk? how did he overcome feeling like an outsider in a highly technical space? And a whole lot more!

Sherryl is a Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft. Her story is one of resilience and overcoming adversity. Early life was tough: not always having enough money for food, a serious bout of malaria, frequent moves and new school systems. In this conversation Sherryl shares with us how she pushed through: going to university, creating her own company and eventually joining Microsoft, where's been over a decade.

Nelson is currently on a sabbatical focused on: 🏄🏻‍♂️ 🚴🏼‍♂️ ✍🏼 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Most recently he led a marketing team of 18 at Series C startup Zinier. Earlier he was the Director of Product Marketing, App Cloud at Salesforce. We chat about a range of topics: large tech company or startup? was an MBA worth the investment? how does Nelson hire? how to spot a great manager?

Sunny is Vice President & GM, Global SMB at Braze. He started his career as an aeronautical engineer at GE before earning his MBA at Harvard Business School and moving into a career in marketing and business leadership. In this conversation Sunny shares with us his experience immigrating to the US at the age of 12, why he switched from engineering to business, the emotional journey of founding a company that went on to get acquired, and a whole lot more.

In this bonus episode of Season 1, my friend Dan Ferreira hosts the show and interviews me on my career and life to date. We talk about my early life moving countries often, how I seek inspiration, what got me into marketing, and some of the unexpected turns in my path.

Drashti is the Head of Brand and Marketing at Siilo, an Amsterdam based secure medical messaging app. She has over a decade of B2B product marketing and brand experience from Microsoft, Impraise, ClearSlide, and Iron Creative. In this conversation we unpack her career and life journey, from interning at Tom's shoes to leading a team of marketing professionals.